Forgotten
Raja Shehadeh, Penny Johnson
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
Forgotten is a search for hidden or neglected memorials and places in historic Palestine - now Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories - and what they might tell us about the land and the people who live on our small slip of earth between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
From ancient city ruins to the Nabi 'Ukkasha mosque and tomb, acclaimed writers and researchers Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson ask: what has been memorialised, and what lies unseen, abandoned or erased - and why? Whether standing on a high cliff overlooking Lebanon or at the lowest land-based elevation on earth at the Dead Sea, they explore lost connections in a fragmented land.
In elegiac, elegant prose, Shehadeh and Johnson grapple not only with questions of Israeli resistance to acknowledging the Nakba - the 1948 catastrophe for Palestinians - but also with the complicated history of Palestinian commemoration today.
Rezensionen
Palestine'
<b>Praise for Rajah Shehadeh: </b>In his moral clarity and baring of the heart ... Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi
<b>Praise for <i>Companions in Conflict</i>:</b> '
A buoy in a sea of bleakness
Profoundly personal as well as historically significant ... A quiet and deeply felt book
Kundenbewertungen
A Land With A People Esther Farmer Rosalind Pollack Petchesky Sarah Sills, Raja Shehadeh, Out of Place Edward W. Said, Apeirogon Colum McCann, Nakba, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine Rashid Khalidi, Israel-Palestine conflict, Minor Detail Adania Shibli, West Bank, A Line in the Sand James Barr, Seeking Palestine Penny Johnson, Mandatory Palestine