Portada

TEARS FOR TARSHIHA IBD

WILD DINGO PRESS
08 / 2018
9780648066361
Inglés

Sinopsis

Olfat Mahmoud&rsquo,s confronting autobiography asks when the world will deliver on its promise and allow her people to return home to Palestine.Olfat Mahmoud is a stateless Palestinian refugee. Born in a refugeecamp in Lebanon, she is a descendant of the Christian and Muslim people who were forced from their homeland at gunpoint by the Israeli military in the 1948&rsquo,s Nakba, &lsquo,Catastrophe&rsquo,, and who fled Palestine in the period leading up to &ndash, and after &ndash, the subsequent founding of the state of Israel in 1948.Tears for Tarshiha follows Olfat&rsquo,s career &ndash, as a registered nurse, the director of an international NGO, an internationally recognised peace activist, and most recently, the recipient of a doctorate &ndash, amid the death and destruction of Lebanon&rsquo,s many conflicts, she chronicles the Palestinian people&rsquo,s remarkable capacity for love and bravery in the most extreme conditions. Olfat&rsquo,s extraordinary story is emblematic of the Palestinian plight, illustrating their continued survival and determination that has become an inconvenience to the international community.