Suad Amiry: Sharon and My Mother-in-Law, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Sharon and My Mother-in-Law
- Ramallah Diaries
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 09/2006
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781400096497
- Item number:
- 6433214
- Volume:
- 226 Pages
- Weight:
- 295 g
- Format:
- 201 x 130 mm
- Thickness:
- 15 mm
- Release date:
- 19.9.2006
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
Based on diaries and email correspondence that she kept from 1981-2004, here Suad Amiry evokes daily life in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Capturing the frustrations, cabin fever, and downright misery of her experiences, Amiry writes with elegance and humor about the enormous difficulty of moving from one place to another, the torture of falling in love with someone from another town, the absurdity of her dog receiving a Jerusalem identity card when thousands of Palestinians could not, and the trials of having her ninety-two-year-old mother-in-law living in her house during a forty-two-day curfew. With a wickedly sharp ear for dialogue and a keen eye for detail, Amiry gives us an original, ironic, and firsthand glimpse into the absurdity-and agony-of life in the Occupied Territories.
Biography
Suad Amiry lebt in Ramallah/Palästina und studierte Architektur an der amerikanischen Universität von Beirut, in Michigan/USA und in Edinburgh. Sie ist Direktorin des von ihr gegründeten Riwaq Zentrums für palästinensische Architektur und lehrt an der Universität von Birzeit. Von 1991 bis 1993 war sie Mitglied einer Friedensdelegation von Palästinensern in Washington. Derzeit engagiert sie sich in einer bedeutenden Friedensinitiative von palästinensischen und israelischen Frauen.
