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: Arabs. Jerusalem ; On the road to Suez ; The magic kingdom ; Arabia: "progress without change"; title: Defeating Arab modernity. Cario and Nasser's Egypt, 1965-1967 ; "A man without a country," 1967-1970 ; Black September, 1970; title: Jews, Israelis and the Shoah. The night of broken glass ; The Hebrew republic.