Jiryis Fida
Jiryis Fida - Stranger In My Own Land Palestine Israel And One Familys Story Of Home - Paperback
Jiryis Fida - Stranger In My Own Land Palestine Israel And One Familys Story Of Home - Paperback
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Description: After the 1993 Oslo Accords a handful of Palestinians were allowed to return to their hometowns in Israel. Fida Jiryis and her family were among them. This beautifully written memoir tells the story of their journey which is also the story of Palestine from the Nakba to the present a seventy - five - year tale of conflict exodus occupation return and search for belonging seen through the eyes of one writer and her family. Jiryis reveals how her father Sabri a PLO leader and advisor to Yasser Arafat chose exile in 1970 because of his work. Her own childhood in Beirut was shaped by regional tensions the Lebanese Civil War and the 1982 Israeli invasion which led to her mother's death. Thirteen years later the family made an unexpected return to Fassouta their village of origin in the Galilee. But Fida twenty - two years old and full of love for her country had no idea what she was getting into. Stranger in My Own Land chronicles a desperate at times surreal search for a homeland between the Galilee the West Bank and the diaspora asking difficult questions about what the right of return would mean for the millions of Palestinians waiting to come home .
Title: Stranger In My Own Land Palestine Israel And One Familys Story Of Home
Author(s): Jiryis Fida
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781911723882
Pages: 448 Pages, 88 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 11/1/2024
Category: Gender Studies: Women
Description: After the 1993 Oslo Accords a handful of Palestinians were allowed to return to their hometowns in Israel. Fida Jiryis and her family were among them. This beautifully written memoir tells the story of their journey which is also the story of Palestine from the Nakba to the present a seventy - five - year tale of conflict exodus occupation return and search for belonging seen through the eyes of one writer and her family. Jiryis reveals how her father Sabri a PLO leader and advisor to Yasser Arafat chose exile in 1970 because of his work. Her own childhood in Beirut was shaped by regional tensions the Lebanese Civil War and the 1982 Israeli invasion which led to her mother's death. Thirteen years later the family made an unexpected return to Fassouta their village of origin in the Galilee. But Fida twenty - two years old and full of love for her country had no idea what she was getting into. Stranger in My Own Land chronicles a desperate at times surreal search for a homeland between the Galilee the West Bank and the diaspora asking difficult questions about what the right of return would mean for the millions of Palestinians waiting to come home .
Title: Stranger In My Own Land Palestine Israel And One Familys Story Of Home
Author(s): Jiryis Fida
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781911723882
Pages: 448 Pages, 88 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 11/1/2024
Category: Gender Studies: Women
