What's in a Name: Stories Behind Arabic-Palestinian Place-Names in Israel - Paperback
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What's in a Name: Stories Behind Arabic-Palestinian Place-Names in Israel
One spring day in the 1980s, my family and I woke up to the sight of bulldozers, accompanied by Israeli policemen, ascending the hill called Jabal Sīkh in Kafr Kannā. At the time, I was a pupil in elementary school, and the hill could be seen clearly from the school. My teacher explained to the class that the Jewish National Fund workers were leveling the hill and planting pine and cypress trees...
Dr. Amer Dahamshe received his PhD from the Department of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He currently teaches in the Hebrew department at the Arab Academic College of Education in Israel-Haifa and is a research fellow in the Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of Haifa. His first book, A Local Habitation and a Name: A New Literary and...
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