Does the Land Remember Me?

A Memoir of Palestine

Aziz Shihab (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

149 Seiten

2007
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-0862-2 (ISBN)

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Summoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns to the homeland he and his family fled as refugees decades earlier: to a Palestine reclaimed by Israelis and to a country no longer that of his youth in a nation whose estate has been challenged by history. This gripping book chronicles that month-long journey. Part memoir, part travelogue, it reveals the complexities of leaving behind such the past and coming to grips with its abandonment. With his sharp ear for dialogue and with a journalist's eye, Shihab records and considers, sometimes with fond humor, the Palestinian psyche. Family meetings brim with soothing time-honored ritual and cultural blindness. Pungent street anecdotes resonate with profound themes like human rights, land dislocation, and poverty. Shihab's stories of departure and return, loss of land and reconnection provide enriching insights into the depth and intricacy of Palestinian culture and history and its legacy of displacement.

Aziz Shihab is known for his independent newspaper, The Arab Star. He has written about the Middle East for The Dallas Morning News and The San Antonio Express-News.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.5.2007
Reihe/Serie	Arab American Writing
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	142 x 204 mm
Gewicht	284 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Naher Osten
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8156-0862-4 / 0815608624
ISBN-13	978-0-8156-0862-2 / 9780815608622
Zustand	Neuware