Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
Subtitle: coming of age between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
By: Kai Bird
Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781416544401; 9781416544418
Description: Pulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-405) and index.
Table of contents: title: Author's note on memoir and history; title: Maps of the Middle East; title: Book 1 : Arabs.; title: Jerusalem; title: On the road to Suez; title: The magic kingdom; title: Arabia : "progress without change"; title: Book 2 : Defeating Arab modernity.; title: Cairo and Nasser's Egypt, 1965-1967; title: "A man without a country," 1967-1970; title: Black September, 1970; title: Book 3 : Jews, Israelis and the Shoah.; title: The night of broken glass; title: The Hebrew republic; title: Epilogue