رقم التسجيلة
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2094
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نوع المادة
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book
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ردمك
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0374299501
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رقم الطلب
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DS119.7.N825
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المؤلف
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Nusseibeh, Sari
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العنوان
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Once upon a country : a Palestinian life / Sari Nusseibeh ; with Anthony David
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بيان الطبعة
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1st ed
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بيانات النشر
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
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الوصف المادي
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viii, 542 p., [8] p. of plates : 24 cm ; ill
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ملاحظات
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [537]-542)
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الملاحظات الببليوجرافية
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Sari Nusseibeh, a philosopher, was the Palestine Liberation Organization’s chief representative in Jerusalem from 2001 to 2002, in which role he advocated a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is the president of and a professor at Al-Quds University, the Arab University of Jerusalem. Nusseibeh was educated at Oxford and Harvard, and was a Radcliffe Institute Fellow at Harvard for 2004–05. He is the author of two previous books.
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المحتويات / النص
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Contents
Prologue: A Fairytale
1. The Key
2. The Pan-Arab Nation
3. Promises, Promises
4. The Herod Gate Committee
5. The Pepper Tree
6. A Grape Vine
7. Smashing Idols
8. Sunflower
9. Monticello
10. The Lemon Tree Café
11. The Salon
12. Military Order 854
13. Masquerade
14. Murder on the Via Dolorosa
15. Faisal Husseini
16. Annex Us!
17. Sticks and Stones
18. The Exorcism
19. A Declaration of Independence
20. Interrogation
21. Ramle Prison
22. Madrid
23. A Shadow Government
24. Oslo
25. The Disappearance
26. Porcupines and Roosters
27. Holy of Holies
28. The Possessed
29. Allies
30. Checkmate
31. The Iron Fist
32. The Tigers
33. The Perfect Crime
Conclusion: A Night Journey
Notes
Acknowledgments
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المستخلص
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A prominent Palestinian's searching, anguished, deeply affecting autobiography, in which his life story comes to be the story of the recent history of his country.
Sari Nusseibeh’s autobiography is a remarkable book—one in which his dramatic life story and that of his embattled country converge in a work of great passion, depth, and emotional power.
Nusseibeh was raised to represent his country. His family’s roots in Palestine traced back to the Middle Ages, and his father was the governor of Jerusalem. Educated at Oxford, he was trained to build upon his father’s support for coexistence and a negotiated solution to the problems of the region.
But the wars of 1967 and 1973 spelled the beginning of the end for the vision of a unified Palestine—and Nusseibeh’s response to these events, and to those that followed, gives us the recent history from a Palestinian point of view as no book has done. From his time teaching side by side with Israelis at Hebrew University through his appointment by Yassir Arafat to administer Arab Jerusalem, he holds fast to a two-state solution, even as the powers around him insist that it is impossible. As Palestine is torn apart by settlements and barricades, corruption and violence, Nusseibeh remains true to the ideals of his youth, determined to keep hold of some faint hope for the life of his country.
Once Upon a Country is a book with the scope and vitality of an old-fashioned novel—one whose ending is still uncertain.
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المواضيع
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Nusseibeh, Sari
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المواضيع
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Arab-Israeli conflict - Peace - 1993-
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الأسماء المرتبطة
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David, Anthony
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