Sharon and my mother-in-law : Ramallah diaries / Suad Amiry.

By:

Amiry, Suad

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Granta, 2005.Description: xi, 194 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

1862078025

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

956.95044092

Summary: "Amiry describes the agony of falling in love when you live in a country with a Byzantine system of Israeli permits, passes and checkpoints, and the sheer difficulty for Palestinians of moving from one place to another in this tiny country. She writes about the impossibility of acquiring gas masks from the Israeli Civil Administration during the first Gulf War of 1991, about her dog Nura acquiring a Jerusalem passport when thousands of Palestinians have failed to do so, about the challenges of shopping during breaks in the curfew and about the effects of Israel's 'separation wall'. She tells us about the life and gossip of her neighbourhood in Ramallah, her moving family history and the struggle to live a normal life in a insane situation."-- Provided by the publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book - 7-day loan	CYA Library Main Collection	956.95044092 AMI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000008165

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"Amiry describes the agony of falling in love when you live in a country with a Byzantine system of Israeli permits, passes and checkpoints, and the sheer difficulty for Palestinians of moving from one place to another in this tiny country. She writes about the impossibility of acquiring gas masks from the Israeli Civil Administration during the first Gulf War of 1991, about her dog Nura acquiring a Jerusalem passport when thousands of Palestinians have failed to do so, about the challenges of shopping during breaks in the curfew and about the effects of Israel's 'separation wall'. She tells us about the life and gossip of her neighbourhood in Ramallah, her moving family history and the struggle to live a normal life in a insane situation."-- Provided by the publisher.