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100			_aJiryis, Fida
245			_aStranger in my own land : _bpalestine, israel and one family's story of home / _cBy Fida Jiryis
260			_aLondon _bC. Hurst & Co. _c2024
300			_axxiii, 389 pages _c22 cm.
365			_bRs. 1924.00
505			_aIntroduction 1. A homeland is lost 2. The alien state 3. Resistance 4. Every path closed 5. Brothers in arms 6. Exile 7. Happy times 8. The dark hour 9. Safer shores 10. A miracle of sorts 11. The return 12. Stranger in my own land 13. Nowhere to turn 14. Escape 15. In search of Palestine 16. Culture of hate Epilogue
520			_a"After the 1993 Oslo Accords, a handful of Palestinians were allowed to return to their hometowns in Israel. Fida Jiryis and her family were among them. This beautifully written memoir tells the story of their journey, which is also the story of Palestine, from the Nakba to the present-a seventy-five-year tale of conflict, exodus, occupation, return and search for belonging, seen through the eyes of one writer and her family. Jiryis reveals how her father, Sabri, a PLO leader and advisor to Yasser Arafat, chose exile in 1970 because of his work. Her own childhood in Beirut was shaped by regional tensions, the Lebanese Civil War and the 1982 Israeli invasion, which led to her mother's death. Thirteen years later, the family made an unexpected return to Fassouta, their village of origin in the Galilee. But Fida, twenty-two years old and full of love for her country, had no idea what she was getting into. Stranger in My Own Land chronicles a desperate, at times surreal, search for a homeland between the Galilee, the West Bank and the diaspora, asking difficult questions about what the right of return would mean for the millions of Palestinians waiting to come 'home'."
650			_aPalestine History 20th century
650			_aPalestine History 21st century
650			_aPalestinian Arabs Israel Identity
650			_aPalestinian Arabs Israel Biography
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