Prisoners
Subtitle: a Muslim and a Jew across the Middle East divide
By: Jeffrey Goldberg
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780375412349
Subjects: Jewish journalists; Gevangenissen; Palestinian Arabs; Biography; Palestijnse kwestie; Ethnic relations; Arab-Israeli conflict
Description: The author describes his move to Israel as a student, his work as a prison guard, and his extended dialogue with a prisoner named Rafiq, a PLO leader, explaining how they forged a friendship despite their religious, cultural, and political differences.
Notes: Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: The thief of mercy; title: The mysterious child of lies; title: Our Lady of Lourdes; title: The hill of Jewish bones; title: God's golden shore; title: The blanket party; title: Desert eagle; title: Rafiq; title: The army of Muhammad; title: The giving famishes the craving; title: Let my people go; title: In the valleys of Jerusalem; title: The past is in the past; title: Peace without guns; title: Prisoner number 26505; title: Refugees; title: You were the devil to me; title: You are most welcome here; title: Abraham was a Muslim; title: A kitbag question; title: A lesson for America; title: A happy man in Palestine; title: Good guys; title: Stop being Jewish; title: I want you to live.