Occupied Voices
Subtitle: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada (Nation Books)
Contributors: Laura Junka (Photographer)
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781560255307
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; True Stories; West Bank; Middle East - General; Palestine - History; History; History - General History; Personal narratives, Palestinian Arab; History: World; Palestine; History / Middle East; Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000-; Gaza Strip; Interviews; Palestinian Arabs; Personal narratives, Palestini
First sentence: I WAS FORTY-FIVE minutes late to my appointment with Samia.
Description: "As the Middle East peace process disintegrates and the second Palestinian Intifada begins, Wendy Pearlman, a young Jewish woman from the American Midwest, travels to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in a quest to talk to ordinary Palestinians. A remarkable and inspiring narrative emerges from her conversations with doctors, artists, school kids, and families who have lost loved ones or watched their homes destroyed. As Pearlman writes, "the personal stories and heartfelt reflections that I encountered did not expose a hatred of Jews or a yearning to push Israelis back into the sea. Rather, they painted a portrait of a people who longed for precisely that which had inspired the first Israelis: the chance to be citizens in a country of their own.""--Jacket.