Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir
Salman Abu Sitta, who has single-handedly made available crucial mapping work on Palestine, was just ten years old when he left his home near Beersheba in 1948, but as for many Palestinians of his generation, the profound effects of that traumatic loss would form the defining feature of his life fro...
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Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
Langue: | Anglais |
Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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Oxford
American University in Cairo Press
2016
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Dans: | Année: 2016 |
Recensions: | [Rezension von: Abū-Sitta, Salmān, 1937-, Mapping my return] (2017) (Sabbagh, Karl, 1950 -)
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Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Electronic books
B Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Biography |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
Édition parallèle: | Print version: Abu Sitta, Salman: Mapping My Return : A Palestinian Memoir. - Oxford : American University in Cairo Press,c2016 |
Résumé: | Salman Abu Sitta, who has single-handedly made available crucial mapping work on Palestine, was just ten years old when he left his home near Beersheba in 1948, but as for many Palestinians of his generation, the profound effects of that traumatic loss would form the defining feature of his life from that moment on. In this rich and moving memoir, Abu Sitta draws on oral histories and personal recollections to vividly evoke the vanished world of his family and home from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the British withdrawal from Palestine and subsequent war |
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ISBN: | 161797708X |