When the birds stopped singing : life in Ramallah under siege / Raja Shehadeh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shehadeh, Raja, 1951-

Contributor:

Shehadeh, Raja, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shehadeh, Raja, 1951---Diaries.

Shehadeh, Raja.

Shehadeh, Raja, 1951-.

Palestinian Arabs--West Bank--Rām Allāh--Diaries.

Palestinian Arabs.

Arab-Israeli conflict--Occupied territories.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Military occupation--Social aspects--West Bank--Rām Allāh.

Military occupation.

Military occupation--Social aspects.

Rām Allāh--Social conditions.

Rām Allāh.

West Bank--Rām Allāh.

Genre:

Diaries.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 152 pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Other Title:

Birds stopped singing

Place of Publication:

South Royalton, VT : Steerforth Press, [2003]

Summary:

In April 2002, the Israeli army reoccupied Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority has its headquarters. A tank blocked Raja Shehadeh's road; Israeli soldiers seized his brother's home and used him as a human shield during a search, as his frightened wife and children watched. "When the Birds Stopped Singing reveals the rage and terror of daily life in these dire circumstances, showing how time passes for people imprisoned in their own homes, how they cope with being forbidden to cross the neighborhood to help a sick relative or dying friend. A chronicle of lives that somehow endure under impossible circumstances, Shehadeh's diary is a compelling and important document of a problem that seems increasingly beyond solution.

Notes:

First published in Great Britain by Profile Books, London, 2003 under the title When the bulbul stopped singing.

Related Work:

Shehadeh, Raja, 1951- When the bulbul stopped singing.

ISBN:

1586420690

OCLC:

52153874