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Tears for Tarshiha / Olfat Mahmoud ; with Dani Cooper and Helen McCue.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mahmoud, Olfat, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mahmoud, Olfat, 1960-.
- Mahmoud, Olfat.
- Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Biography.
- Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949--Refugees.
- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v, 193 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Melbourne, Australia : Wild Dingo Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Born in a refugee camp in Lebanon more than 60 years ago, Olfat's determination to help her people in their fight to return to their homeland led to a nursing career that has placed her at the front line of atrocious massacres and wars in the Middle East. Tears for Tarshiha.
- Contents:
- Intro
- 1
- The Catastrophe ( al Nakba )
- 2
- Around the brazier
- 3
- A family dispersed
- 4
- Camp life
- 5
- A people's army
- 6
- Nursing the enemy
- 7
- Encircled
- 8
- Back to Beirut
- 9
- The massacre
- 10
- Nawal's brother
- 11
- A taste of freedom
- 12
- Down Under
- 13
- Bar Elias
- 14
- New life
- 15
- The promise of Oslo
- 16
- Life and death
- 17
- Woman on a mission
- 18
- My personal diaspora
- Epilogue
- Return to Tarshiha.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-9873813-4-2
- OCLC:
- 1117630797
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