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Category : Palestine
Languages : en
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Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt
Author: Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt
Author: Sir Charles William WilsonPublisher:
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
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Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt
Author: Sir Charles William WilsonPublisher:
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt
Author: Sir Charles William WilsonPublisher:
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Gazette de Naples
Author: Rediscovering Palestine
Author: Beshara DoumaniPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520917316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Drawing on previously unused primary sources, this book paints an intimate and vivid portrait of Palestinian society on the eve of modernity. Through the voices of merchants, peasants, and Ottoman officials, Beshara Doumani offers a major revision of standard interpretations of Ottoman history by investigating the ways in which urban-rural dynamics in a provincial setting appropriated and gave meaning to the larger forces of Ottoman rule and European economic expansion. He traces the relationship between culture, politics, and economic change by looking at how merchant families constructed trade networks and cultivated political power, and by showing how peasants defined their identity and formulated their notions of justice and political authority. Original and accessible, this study challenges nationalist constructions of history and provides a context for understanding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It is also the first comprehensive work on the Nablus region, Palestine's trade, manufacturing, and agricultural heartland, and a bastion of local autonomy. Doumani rediscovers Palestine by writing the inhabitants of this ancient land into history.
The Handbook of Palestine
Author: Sir Harry LukePublisher:
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Category : Eretz Israel
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Byeways in Palestine
Author: James FinnPublisher:
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Category : Palestine
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt: Introduction
Author: Sir Charles William WilsonPublisher:
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
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Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
Author: Kai BirdPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439171602
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
*From the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of American Prometheus—the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film Oppenheimer* Now with a new introduction, Kai Bird’s fascinating memoir of his early years spent in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon provides an original and illuminating perspective into the Arab-Israeli conflict. In 1956, four-year-old Kai Bird, son of a charming American diplomat, moved to Jerusalem with his family. Kai could hear church bells and the Muslim call to prayer and watch as donkeys and camels competed with cars for space on the narrow streets. Each day on his way to school, Kai was driven through Mandelbaum Gate, where armed soldiers guarded the line separating Israeli-controlled West Jerusalem from Arab-controlled East. Bird would spend much of his life crossing such lines—as a child in Jerusalem, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, and later, as a young man in Lebanon. In Crossing Mandelbaum Gate, a narrative that “rips along like a spy novel” (The New York Times Book Review), Bird’s retelling of “events such as Suez in 1956, the Six Day War of 1967, and Black September in 1970 are as clear and fresh as yesterday” (The Spectator, UK). Bird vividly portrays emblematic figures like George Antonius, author of The Arab Awakening; Jordan’s King Hussein; the Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled; Salem bin Laden; Saudi King Faisal; President Nasser of Egypt; and Hillel Kook, the forgotten rescuer of more than 100,000 Jews during World War II. Bird, his parents sympathetic to Palestinian self-determination and his wife the daughter of two Holocaust survivors, has written a “kaleidoscopic and captivating” (Publishers Weekly) personal history of a troubled region and an indispensable addition to the literature on the modern Middle East.