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Palestinian Authors and Their Novels and Memoirs - RANDA ABDEL FATTAH

6 Feb 2021

2018) was originally published by Palestinian family; graduated as an MD from the the author himself in 1962 as he could not find a publisher due to the American University of Beirut in 1936; continued prevalent feelings of sympathy towards the Jewish people and result- his studies in Britain and Germany; worked as a ing ignorance of the plight of the Palestinian people at the time. [...] estinian Writers’ Union; Palestinian spokesperson Writing in the language of her heart, Ashrawi voices the most reasoned for the Madrid and Washington negotiations; understanding of the situation in the Middle East, of the difficult road formed the Palestinian Independent Commission traveled, and of the perhaps more difficult road ahead. [...] AZ MI BISHARA The Checkpoint- Fragments of a Novel (2003) is a collection of epi- Born in Kafr Rama, Galilee, in 1956; founded the sodes from the daily life of the Palestinians, memories of days of youth, National Committee of Arab Secondary School and anecdotes of the absurdities of life under occupation, partly Students at the age of 18; co-founded the Arab narrated by a Palestinian family fathe. [...] SH AFIQ AL-HOUT My Life in the PLO (2011) is the inside story of the Palestine Liberation Born in Jaffa in 1932; fled to Beirut with his family Organization (PLO), from its beginnings in 1964 to the signing of the in 1948; became a journalist in Beirut at the al- Oslo agreement in 1993. [...] Taking us right to the heart of the decision- Hawadth newspaper; founded the Palestine Lib- making processes, this book explains the personalities and internal eration Front; a founder of the Palestine Libera- politics that shaped the PLO's actions and the Palestinian experience tion Organization; represented the PLO in Leba- of the twentieth century.

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