CARTCART
MENUMENU -مكتبة جرير
jarirbooksusa.com

Drinking the Sea at Gaza - Days and Nights in Land Under Siege

By: Hass, Amira Tr. Wesley, Elana & Lacusta-Kaufmann
Share

Language: English

Softcover

An Israeli journalist living in Gaza offers her insights and reflections on what she saw and learned in the much-maligned Palestinian enclave

In 1993, Amira Hass, a young Israeli reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story - and stayed, the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian enclave so feared and despised by most Israelis that, in the local idiom, «Go to Gaza» is another way to say «Go to hell.» Now, in a work of calm power and painful clarity, Hass reflects on what she has seen in the Gaza Strips's gutted streets and destitute refugee camps.

«Drinking the Sea at Gaza» maps the zones of ordinary Palestinian life. From her friends, Hass learns the secrets of slipping across sealed borders and stealing through night streets emptied by curfews. She shares Gaza's early euphoria over the peace process and its subsequent despair as hope gives way to unrelenting hardship. But even as Hass charts the griefs and humiliations of the Palestinians, she offers a remarkable portrait of a people not brutalized but eloquent, spiritually resilient, bleakly funny, and morally courageous.

Full of testimonies and stories, facts and impressions, «Drinking the Sea at Gaza» makes an urgent claim on our humanity. Beautiful, haunting, and profound, it will stand with the great works of wartime reportage.

select image to view/enlarge/scroll

Product Details
By:Hass, Amira Tr. Wesley, Elana & Lacusta-Kaufmann
Language:English
Format:Softcover
Pages: 384 pp
Publisher:Holt, New York 2000
Dimensions:14 x 21 cm
ISBN-13:9780805057409
Topic:Palestine-Israel - Palestinians - Gaza - Social life and customs

Drinking the Sea at Gaza - Days and Nights in Land Under Siege
US$22.00

Scroll To Top
Can't find what you need? Have questions?
Send an email: admin@jarirbooksusa.com
Or Call: 714-539-8100
Jarirbooksusa.com
Proud to Specialize In...
Arabic Books | Arabic Children Books | Middle East & Islamic Books | Arabic Language Studies
Classical and Contemporary Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies | English-Arabic & Arabic-English Dictionaries

☎ 714-539-8100