Palestinian Memories: The Land in the Head - Anwar Abu Eisheh
Testimony
For many of us, the Palestinian question is just a UN file or an irritating "brief" on the 1 p.m. news. But what about the living reality? Anwar Abu Eisheh succeeds, through this puzzle of testimonies, in making this daily reality of the 1980s tangible for us. Whether they come to us from Palestinian land or from exile, these voices teach us a lot about what happened before the Naqba (catastrophe) of 1948 and after. They enlighten us on a conflict that has lasted for almost a century. These testimonies are precious to us because they make us share this strange feeling of absence, when everything that distinguished you has disappeared from history, from the name of your village to that of your family. Landless, homeless, almost without identity, betrayed by their Arab brothers and occupied by the Israelis, these vanquished or exiled people deliver to us, more than any slogan, their insatiable thirst for their country.
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Digital book
ISBN 978-2-313-00270-4
Ebook (PDF, ePub, Mobi) - 270 p. (2011)
Paper book
ISBN 978-2-313-00279-7
Paper book - 334 p. (2011)