This is a memoir of Ghada Karmi's life: her childhood in Palestine, the flight to Britain after the catastrophe of 1948 and coming-of-age in the coffee bars of Golders Green, the middle-class Jewish quarter in North London. With humour, she describes the bizarre and sometimes tense realities that mask her life in "Little Tel Aviv" and, later, the ...
Why do snakes eat frogs? What makes a man-eating ghoul turn vegetarian? And how can a woman make a bored prince smile? The answers to these and many other questions can be found in this delicious anthology of Palestinian folk tales. A wry sense of humour pervades the eight stories, with a cast of characterful women, genial tricksters and ...
Two rabbis, visiting Palestine in 1897, observed that the land was like a bride, 'beautiful, but married to another man'. By which they meant that, if a place was to be found for Israel in Palestine, where would the people of Palestine go? This is a dilemma that Israel has never been able to resolve. No conflict today is more dangerous than that ...
Patterns of disease are known to differ between ethnic groups. For diagnosis and treatment to be effective it is essential that health care professionals recognize this. The provision of culturally appropriate and sensitive health care depends upon access to reliable information that highlights ethnic minority customs which may influence health. ...
This title deals with an important and often neglected subject: the Palestinian exodus and the creation of the refugee problem. The intimate and causal connection between the refugee exodus and the creation of the Jewish state in Palestine has rarely been defined and the two issues have customarily been treated as separate events. This book ...
This volume is an examination of the significance of Jerusalem and the various options for a just and workable final settlement of the city's status. The analysis comes from experts from different fields and from both the Israeli and Palestinian side.
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