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Mapping My Return - A Palestinian Memoir (Paperback)
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Mapping My Return - A Palestinian Memoir (Paperback)
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Salman Abu Sitta, who has single-handedly made available crucial
mapping work on Palestine, was just ten years old when he left his
home near Beersheba in 1948, but as for many Palestinians of his
generation, the profound effects of that traumatic loss would form
the defining feature of his life from that moment on. In this rich
and moving memoir, Abu Sitta draws on oral histories and personal
recollections to vividly evoke the vanished world of his family and
home from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the British
withdrawal from Palestine and subsequent war. Alongside accounts of
an idyllic childhood spent on his family's farm estate Abu Sitta
gives a personal and very human face to the dramatic events of
1930s and 1940s Palestine, conveying the acute sense of foreboding
felt by Palestinians as Zionist ambitions and militarization
expanded under the mandate. Following his family's flight to Gaza
during the 1948 mass exodus of Palestinians from their homes, Abu
Sitta continued his schooling and university education in Cairo,
where he witnessed the heady rise of Arab nationalism after the
overthrow of King Farouk in 1952 and the momentous events
surrounding the Israeli invasion of Sinai and Gaza in 1956. With
warmth and humor, he chronicles his peripatetic exile's existence,
as an engineering student in Nasser's Egypt, his crucial, formative
years in 1960s London, his life as a family man and academic in
Canada, and several sojourns in Kuwait, all against the backdrop of
seismic political events in the region, including the 1967 and 1973
Arab-Israeli wars, the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and the
1991 Gulf War. Abu Sitta's narrative is imbued throughout with a
burning sense of justice, a determination to recover and document
what rightfully belongs to his people, an aim given poignant
expression in his painstaking cartographic and archival work on
Palestine, for which he is justifiably acclaimed.
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