Does the land remember me?; a memoir of Palestine.9780815608622 Does the land remember me?; a memoir of Palestine. Shihab, Aziz. Syracuse U. Pr. 2007 149 pages $19.95 Hardcover Arab American Arab Americans are Americans of Arab ancestry and constitute an ethnicity made up of several waves of immigrants from twenty-two Arab countries, stretching from Morocco in the west to Oman in the south east to Iraq in the north. writing E184 Journalist Shihab became a refugee from his native Palestine in 1949. Summoned to his dying mother's bedside, he returned to his homeland from the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. some four decades late to find his relatives' world deeply scarred by the Palestinian Nakba ("disaster") and Israeli occupation. In this memoir, he reflects on that trip, weaving in the political history of the ongoing Palestinian refugee  The of this article or section may be compromised by "weasel words".You can help Wikipedia by removing weasel words. crisis and his concerns for the Palestinian people; a people expropriated ex·pro·pri·ate tr.v. ex·pro·pri·at·ed, ex·pro·pri·at·ing, ex·pro·pri·ates 1. To deprive of possession: expropriated the property owners who lived in the path of the new highway. , exiled, and occupied. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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