A Rift in Time: Travels with My Ottoman Uncle
by Raja Shehadeh
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"An engrossing family memoir that shines a light on Palestine's history, offering a sober yet hopeful view of its people's struggles for freedom, from the award-winning author of We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I. The quest for his great-uncle Najib Nassar, an Ottoman journalist-the details of his life, and the route of his great escape from occupied Palestine-consumed award-winning writer Raja Shehadeh for 2 years. As he traces Najib's footsteps, he discovers that today it would show more be impossible to flee the cage that Palestine has become. A Rift in Time is a family memoir written in luminescent prose, but it is also a reflection on how Palestine-in particular the disputed Jordan Rift Valley-has been transformed. Most of Palestine's history and that of its people is buried deep in the ground: whole villages have disappeared, and names have been erased from the map. Yet by seeing the bigger picture of the landscape and the unending struggle for freedom as Shehadeh does, it is still possible to look towards a better future, free from Israeli or Ottoman oppression"-- show lessTags
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Raja Shehadeh is a Palestinian lawyer practicing in Ramallah since 1979 and is a barrister of Lincoln's Inn
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Travel, Biography & Memoir, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 915.6940434 — History & geography Geography & travel Geography of and travel in Asia Middle East Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan Palestine; Israel
- LCC
- DS107.5 .S478 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Israel (Palestine). The Jews
- BISAC
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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- ASINs
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