Stranger in My Own Land
palestine, israel and one family’s story of home
$37.71
- Hardcover
392 pages
- Release Date
11 January 2023
Summary
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 advi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787387812 |
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| ISBN-10: | 178738781X |
| Author: | Fida Jiryis |
| Publisher: | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 392 |
| Release Date: | 11 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 900g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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‘Returning to her homeland, Jiryis saw the facts of her dispossession everywhere. …But there is some comfort to be found here … remind[s] us that we can strive to be worthy custodians of the precious inheritance our forebears have passed on to succeeding generations, until the day that justice can be claimed on their behalf.’
– The New York Review of BooksAbout The Author
Fida Jiryis
Fida Jiryis is a Palestinian writer and editor who has written on life as a Palestinian in Israel and the West Bank. She contributed to Kingdom of Olives and Ash, a Washington Post bestseller on fifty years of Israeli occupation, and Amputated Tongue, a Hebrew-language anthology of Palestinian literature.
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