We Just Want to Live Here - A Palestinian Teenager, an Israeli Teenager, an Unlikely Friendship (Paperback, 1st U.S. ed)

"Profoundly moving....The conflict between Jews and Arabs has been described in countless books and argued in unending polemics, but here, in the letters between these two eighteen-year-old women, an Arab and a Jew, is the heartbreaking essence of the quarrel.... In these letters (an idea brilliantly conceived and carried through by Sylke Tempel) Amal and Odelia educate each other..... This is the book for anyone who wants to feel and understand the emotions on both sides. It will become a classic."
-Arthur Hertzberg, author of A Jew in America: My Life and a People's Struggle for Identity

Palestinian Amal Rifa'i and Israeli Odelia Ainbinder are two teenage girls who live in the same city, yet worlds apart. They met on a student exchange program to Switzerland. Weeks after they returned, the latest, violent Intifada broke out in the fall of 2000.

But two years later, Middle East correspondent Sylke Tempel encouraged Amal and Odelia to develop their friendship by facilitating an exchange of their deepest feelings through letters. In their letters, Amal and Odelia discuss the Intifada, their families, traditions, suicide bombers, and military service. They write frankly of their anger, frustrations, and fear, but also of their hopes and dreams for a brighter future.

Together, Amal and Odelia give us a renewed sense of hope for peace in the Middle East.

General

Imprint:	St. Martin's Griffin
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2003
First published:	September 2003
Authors:	Amal Rifa'i • Odelia Ainbinder • Sylke Tempel
Dimensions:	203 x 127 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	176
Edition:	1st U.S. ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-31894-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Religious & spiritual Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Biography > Religious & spiritual
LSN:	0-312-31894-4
Barcode:	9780312318949

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