A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter's Journey From Refugee Camp To The Arab Spring
by Nahlah Ayed
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A uniquely personal insight into the Middle East from one of Canada's most respected foreign correspondents In 1976, Nahlah Ayed's family gave up their comfortable life in Winnipeg for the squalor of a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan. The transition was jarring, but it was from this uncomfortable situation that Ayed first observed the people whose heritage she shared. The family returned to Canada when she was thirteen, and Ayed ignored the Middle East for many years. But the First show more Gulf War and the events of 9/11 reignited her interest. Soon she was reporting from the region full-time, trying to make sense of the wars and upheavals that have affected its people and sent so many of them seeking a better life elsewhere. In A Thousand Farewells, Ayed describes with sympathy and insight the myriad ways in which the Arab people have fought against oppression and loss as seen from her own early days witnessing protests in Amman, and the wars, crackdowns, and uprisings she has reported on in countries across the region. This is the heartfelt and personal chronicle of a journalist who has devoted much of her career to covering one of the world's most vexing regions. show lessTags
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- Original publication date
- 2012
- Important places
- Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Iraq; Egypt
- Important events
- Arab Spring
- Dedication
- To my mother, who taught me more languages than any school.
And to my father, whose tenacious ambition underwrote our own. - First words
- The white-clad, neatly uniformed policemen fanned out around the green lawn of the traffic circle, their eyes narrowed and spines stiffened by the presence of the riot police standing at the ready some distance away. (Prologu... (show all)e)
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Don't worry. I will be fine."
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History
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- 070.92 — Computer science, information & general works News media, journalism & publishing Documentary media, educational media, news media; journalism; publishing Biography And History Biographies
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- PN4913 .A96 .A3 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Journalism. The periodical press, etc. By region or country
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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