Journals and memoirs, Asian history, Women biography
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Ghada Karmi’s acclaimed memoir relates her childhood in Palestine, flight to Britain after the catastrophe, and coming of age in…
Golders Green, the north London Jewish suburb. A powerful biographical story, In Search of Fatima reflects the author’s personal experiences of displacement and loss against a backdrop of the major political events which have shaped conflict in the Middle East. Speaking for the millions of displaced people worldwide who have lived suspended between their old and new countries, fitting into neither, this is an intimate, nuanced exploration of the subtler privations of psychological displacement and loss of identity.
L'étude de la genèse du conflit israélo-arabe, bien avant 1914, dans la communauté juive séfarade et parmi les sionistes d'Europe…
orientale, montre que les discours du XXe siècle, dominés par la propagande, sont éloignés d'une connaissance enracinée dans la longue mémoire des peuples. Elle met en lumière l'importance de l'histoire culturelle et de l'anthropologie dans la compréhension du conflit.