In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story - Paperback
by Ghada Karmi
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781804297094ISBN-10:1804297097UPC:9781804297094Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Middle East, WomenBook Topic:Israel & PalestineSize:7.80 x 5.15 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.85Product ID:SCN3HC84Y8
"One of the finest, most eloquent and painfully honest memoirs of the Palestinian exile and displacement."
-New Statesman An intimate memoir of the 1948 Nakba, exile and the dispossession of Palestinian lands
In Search of Fatima reflects the author's personal experiences of displacement and loss against a backdrop of the major political events which have shaped conflict in the Middle East. Kharmi was born in Jerusalem but her family were forced out in 1948, following the Nakba, when Palestinians were dispossessed of their lands at the hands of the Israeli state. In this moving account of exile, she charts her family's displacement to Jordan, and finally to Golders Green, London, where she initially refused to lay down roots in alien soil. Through this journey, Kharmi charts the personal account of a young woman's search for identity: as a Palestinian far away from home. Speaking for the millions of displaced people worldwide who have lived suspended between their old and new countries, fitting into neither, this is a nuanced exploration of psychological displacement and loss of identity.
-New Statesman An intimate memoir of the 1948 Nakba, exile and the dispossession of Palestinian lands
In Search of Fatima reflects the author's personal experiences of displacement and loss against a backdrop of the major political events which have shaped conflict in the Middle East. Kharmi was born in Jerusalem but her family were forced out in 1948, following the Nakba, when Palestinians were dispossessed of their lands at the hands of the Israeli state. In this moving account of exile, she charts her family's displacement to Jordan, and finally to Golders Green, London, where she initially refused to lay down roots in alien soil. Through this journey, Kharmi charts the personal account of a young woman's search for identity: as a Palestinian far away from home. Speaking for the millions of displaced people worldwide who have lived suspended between their old and new countries, fitting into neither, this is a nuanced exploration of psychological displacement and loss of identity.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781804297094ISBN-10:1804297097UPC:9781804297094Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Middle East, WomenBook Topic:Israel & PalestineSize:7.80 x 5.15 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.85Product ID:SCN3HC84Y8
Ghada Karmi was born in Jerusalem and trained as a doctor of medicine at Bristol University. She established the first British-Palestinian medical charity in 1972 and was an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs. Her previous books include The Ethnic Health Factfile and Jerusalem Today: What Future for the Peace Process? and, as co-editor with E. Cotran, The Palestinian Exodus, 1948-1998.
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