A thousand farewells
Subtitle: a reporter's journey from refugee camp to the Arab spring
By: Nahlah Ayed
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780670069095
Subjects: Palestinian Canadians; Journalists; Foreign correspondents; Reporterin; Histoire; Oorlogscorrespondenten; Biographies; Journalistes; Correspondants a l'etranger; Biography; History
Description: In 1976, Nahlah Ayed's family gave up their comfortable life in Winnipeg for the squalor of a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan. The transition was jarring, but it was from this uncomfortable situation that Ayed first observed the people whose heritage she shared. The family returned to Canada when she was thirteen, and Ayed ignored the Middle East for many years. But the First Gulf War and the events of 9/11 reignited her interest. Soon she was reporting from the region full-time, trying to make sense of the wars and upheavals that have affected its people and sent so many of them seeking a better life elsewhere.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: My father's camera; title: Refugees by design; title: The store; title: War; title: Jordan, again; title: Sick; title: Ghosts; title: On the run; title: A protest to end all protests; title: Escape route; title: Disillusion; title: Watch Egypt; title: Revolution; title: Victory or death; title: The revolution continues.