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; 9781439171608
Subjects: Bird, Kai -- Childhood and youth; Bird, Kai -- Family; American Colony (Jerusalem) -- Biography; Arab-Israeli conflict -- Personal narratives, American; Jewish-Arab relations -- History -- 20th century; Consuls -- Family relationships -- Jerusalem; Consuls -- Family relationships -- Saudi Arabia -- Dhahran; Jerusalem -- Biography; Dhahran (Saudi Arabia) -- Biography; Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1945-1979
Genres: Personal narratives, American; Biography
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 and index.