Occupied voices : stories of everyday life from the second Intifada / Wendy Pearlman ; photos by Laura Junka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pearlman, Wendy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000-2005--Personal narratives, Palestinian Arab.

Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000-2005.

Palestinian Arabs--West Bank--Interviews.

Palestinian Arabs.

Palestinian Arabs--Gaza Strip--Interviews.

Gaza Strip.

West Bank.

Genre:

Interviews.

Personal narratives -- Palestinian Arab.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

xxx, 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2003]

Summary:

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 narrative emerges from her conversations with doctors, artists, school kids, and families who have lost loved ones or watched their homes destroyed. Their stories, ranging from the humorous to the tragic, paint a profile of the Palestinians that is as honest as it is uncommon in the Western media: that of ordinary people who simply want to live ordinary lives. 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 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."

Contents:

Part 1 Generations of Intifada

1. Samia, community volunteer 3

2. Saber, professor 15

3. Sultan, Narimen, and Jamila, three friends in a village near Bethlehem 25

4. Osama, financial adviser 37

5. Suzanne, TV reporter 47

6. Sana' and Sami, schoolchildren 59

Part 2 Loss and Longing

7. Muna and Soha, mother and sister of a child martyr 73

8. Mohammed, surgeon 91

9. Mohammed, injured in the second Intifada 101

10. Issam, injured in the first Intifada 111

11. Ahmed, Amal, Manoa, and Ibrahim, members of a family in Beit Jala 119

12. Mahmoud, owner of a demolished home 135

Part 3 Faces of Everyday Resistance

13. Azza, filmmaker 145

14. Saad, agricultural engineer 155

15. Iman, college student 167

16. Sami and Shaaban, shop owners 179

17. Ahmed, psychologist 191

18. Khaled and Marina, theater directors 203.

ISBN:

1560255307

OCLC:

51613994