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Sharon And My Mother-In-Law Ramallah Diaries

Amiry Suad
Heftet / 2006 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781862078116
Publisert
2006-04-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Granta Books
Vekt
146 gr
Høyde
192 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Forfatter
Amiry Suad

Biografisk notat

Suad Amiry is the founder and director of the 'Riwaq Center for Architectural Conservation' in Ramallah. After growing up between Amman, Damascus, Beirut and Cairo, she went on to study architecture in Beirut, Michigan and Edinburgh. Since then she has lived in Ramallah.

Sharon And My Mother-In-Law Ramallah Diaries

Amiry Suad
Heftet / 2006 / Engelsk
Amiry Suad
Heftet / 2006 / Engelsk
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A refreshingly funny account of the absurdities of everyday life in the occupied territories

- Stephanie Merritt, Observer

Amiry's acute ear for gossip makes it almost a kind of Palestinian Desperate Housewives

- Christina Lamb, The Sunday Times

Spirited, thought-provoking and shockingly entertaining

- Hephzibah Anderson, Daily Mail

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Not only is it really funny but it also shows the kind of courage, vision and humanity needed to bring peace to the Middle East

- Eve Ensler, author of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES,

A blackly funny account of everyday life in Ramallah and refreshingly different from most writing on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law describes Suad Amiry's life on the West Bank from the early 1980s to the first decade of the new millennium. Vividly evoking her neighbourhood and her moving family history, Amiry creates a fascinating account of her attempts to live a normal life in an insane situation: from the impossibility of acquiring gas masks during the first Gulf War to her dog acquiring a Jerusalem passport when thousands of Palestinians couldn't. During the Israeli invasion of Ramallah in March 2002, Amiry's feisty ninety-two-year-old mother-in-law came to live with them, and Amiry's diary of this time is at the heart of this wonderful book about the absurdity (and agony) of life in the Occupied Territories.
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Suad Amiry has lived on the West Bank since the early eighties - this is her wonderful and blackly funny account of the absurdity (and agony) of life in the Occupied Territories.
Suad Amiry has lived on the West Bank since the early eighties - this is her wonderful and blackly funny account of the absurdity (and agony) of life in the Occupied Territories.

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A refreshingly funny account of the absurdities of everyday life in the occupied territories

- Stephanie Merritt, Observer

Amiry's acute ear for gossip makes it almost a kind of Palestinian Desperate Housewives

- Christina Lamb, The Sunday Times

Spirited, thought-provoking and shockingly entertaining

- Hephzibah Anderson, Daily Mail

Se alle

Not only is it really funny but it also shows the kind of courage, vision and humanity needed to bring peace to the Middle East

- Eve Ensler, author of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES,

A blackly funny account of everyday life in Ramallah and refreshingly different from most writing on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law describes Suad Amiry's life on the West Bank from the early 1980s to the first decade of the new millennium. Vividly evoking her neighbourhood and her moving family history, Amiry creates a fascinating account of her attempts to live a normal life in an insane situation: from the impossibility of acquiring gas masks during the first Gulf War to her dog acquiring a Jerusalem passport when thousands of Palestinians couldn't. During the Israeli invasion of Ramallah in March 2002, Amiry's feisty ninety-two-year-old mother-in-law came to live with them, and Amiry's diary of this time is at the heart of this wonderful book about the absurdity (and agony) of life in the Occupied Territories.
Les mer
Suad Amiry has lived on the West Bank since the early eighties - this is her wonderful and blackly funny account of the absurdity (and agony) of life in the Occupied Territories.
Suad Amiry has lived on the West Bank since the early eighties - this is her wonderful and blackly funny account of the absurdity (and agony) of life in the Occupied Territories.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781862078116
Publisert
2006-04-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Granta Books
Vekt
146 gr
Høyde
192 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Forfatter
Amiry Suad

Biografisk notat

Suad Amiry is the founder and director of the 'Riwaq Center for Architectural Conservation' in Ramallah. After growing up between Amman, Damascus, Beirut and Cairo, she went on to study architecture in Beirut, Michigan and Edinburgh. Since then she has lived in Ramallah.

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