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2) Almost dead
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Politically incorrect, provocative, and steeped in wit and irony, a fast-paced tragicomedy about the perfectly ordinary madness in today's Middle East
A thirtysomething Tel Aviv businessman, Eitan "Croc" Einoch's life is turned upside down when he narrowly escapes a suicide bombing on the minibus he rides to work. When he lives through a second attack, and then a third, he becomes, reluctantly, a national media celebrity. Naturally, the Palestinian...
10) Sitti's secrets
Author
Publisher
Four Winds Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl describes a visit to see her grandmother in a Palestinian village on the West Bank.
12) We belong to the land: the story of a Palestinian Israeli who lives for peace and reconciliation
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
13) 9 star hotel
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Arabic
Description
A look at some of the many Palestinians who illegally cross the border into Israel, and how they share their food, belongings, and stories, as well as a fear of the soldiers and police.
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A young Arab journalist returns to his hometown -- an Arab village within Israel -- where his already vexed sense of belonging is forced to crisis when the village becomes a pawn in the never-ending power struggle that is the Middle East. Hoping to reclaim the simplicity of life among kin, the prodigal son returns home to find that nothing is as he remembers: everything is smaller, the people are petty and provincial. But when Israeli tanks surround...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
This study of Israel's Palestinian Arabs is based upon the author's observation of the family of Abu Ahmad, a Palestinian clan living in a village in central Israel. The activities and religious rituals of the family are related, along with the feelings of tension in the wake of the intifada. Through oral testimonies, readers learn how life under the Israeli military government (1949-66), which confiscated enormous tracts of land from native Arabs,...