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Sharon and My Mother-in-law: Ramallah Diaries
Suad Amiry
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Description for Sharon and My Mother-in-law: Ramallah Diaries
Paperback. Describes the author's experience of living on the West Bank since the early eighties. The author tells about the life and gossip of her neighbourhood in Ramallah, her moving family history, and the struggle to live a normal life in an insane situation, based on her diary, which she kept during the Israeli invasion of Ramallah in March 2002. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 150.
A blackly funny account of everyday life in Ramallah and refreshingly different from most writing on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law describes Suad Amiry's life on the West Bank from the early 1980s to the first decade of the new millennium. Vividly evoking her neighbourhood and her moving family history, Amiry creates a fascinating account of her attempts to live a normal life in an insane situation: from the impossibility of acquiring gas masks during the first Gulf War to her dog acquiring a Jerusalem passport when thousands of Palestinians couldn't. During the Israeli invasion of Ramallah in ... Read more
A blackly funny account of everyday life in Ramallah and refreshingly different from most writing on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law describes Suad Amiry's life on the West Bank from the early 1980s to the first decade of the new millennium. Vividly evoking her neighbourhood and her moving family history, Amiry creates a fascinating account of her attempts to live a normal life in an insane situation: from the impossibility of acquiring gas masks during the first Gulf War to her dog acquiring a Jerusalem passport when thousands of Palestinians couldn't. During the Israeli invasion of Ramallah in ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Granta Books London
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781862078116
SKU
KNW0008648
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99-2
About Suad Amiry
Suad Amiry is the founder and director of the 'Riwaq Center for Architectural Conservation' in Ramallah. After growing up between Amman, Damascus, Beirut and Cairo, she went on to study architecture in Beirut, Michigan and Edinburgh. Since then she has lived in Ramallah.
Reviews for Sharon and My Mother-in-law: Ramallah Diaries
A refreshingly funny account of the absurdities of everyday life in the occupied territories
Stephanie Merritt
Observer
Amiry's acute ear for gossip makes it almost a kind of Palestinian Desperate Housewives
Christina Lamb
The Sunday Times
Spirited, thought-provoking and shockingly entertaining
Hephzibah Anderson
Daily Mail
Not only is it really funny ... Read more
Stephanie Merritt
Observer
Amiry's acute ear for gossip makes it almost a kind of Palestinian Desperate Housewives
Christina Lamb
The Sunday Times
Spirited, thought-provoking and shockingly entertaining
Hephzibah Anderson
Daily Mail
Not only is it really funny ... Read more