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Going Home - A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation (Paperback)
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Going Home - A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation (Paperback)
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Loot Price R273
Discovery Miles 2 730
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In Going Home, Orwell Prize winning author Raja Shehadeh travels
Ramallah and records the changing face of the city. Walking along
the streets he grew up in, he tells the stories of the people, the
relationships, the houses, and the businesses that were and now are
cornerstones of the city and his community. This is, in many ways,
an elegy. Green spaces - gardens and hills crowned with olive trees
- have been replaced by tower blocks and concrete lots; the
occupation and the settlements have further entrenched themselves
in every aspect of movement-from the roads that can and cannot be
used to the bureaucratic barriers that prevent people leaving the
West Bank. The culture of the city has also shifted with Islam
taking a more prominent role in people's everyday and political
lives and the geography of the city. As he grapples with ageing and
the failures of the resistance, Shehadeh notes the ways that the
past still invades the presence from the ruins of the compound that
was Yasser Arafat's home to the power of emigrated families to
reshape neighbourhoods by selling their long-abandoned homes. This
is perhaps Raja Shehadeh's most painfully visceral book.
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