Nir Baram

A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank

Übersetzer: Cohen, Jessica

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A reportage of Nir Baram's journey along the Green Line, the focus of all hopes for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Text Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9781925355222
• ISBN-10: 1925355225
• Artikelnr.: 46297840

Autorenporträt

Nir Baram was born in Jerusalem in 1976. He has worked as a journalist, editor, and as an advocate for equal rights for Palestinians. He's the author of five novels. Good People (Text, 2016) is the first to be translated into English. Baram received the 2010 Prime Ministers Award for Hebrew Literature. He now lives in Tel Aviv. Jessica Cohen is a freelance translator based in Denver. Born in England and raised in Jerusalem, she translates contemporary Israeli fiction, nonfiction and poetry, as well as commercial material from and into Hebrew. Her published translations include David Grossman's award-winning To the End of the Land, as well as critically-acclaimed works by Yael Hedaya, Ronit Matalon, Amir Gutfreund and Tom Negev.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Two Handcuffed Boys on the Side of the Road -Balata Refugee Camp
Chapter 2: The Post-Two-State Era - El Matan Outpost and Ma'aleh Shomron
Settlement
Chapter 3: "You're the first Jew he's ever seen": Fatah and Hamas Prisoners
Start a New Life - Ramallah
Chapter 4: "I see Gaza from my window" - Kibbutz Nirim
Chapter 5: The Murder of a Palestinian Boy; Fears of Religious War on the
Temple Mount - The Old City of Jerusalem
Chapter 6: Dream Big: "Do you want to be a king or a prophet?" - Kedumim
and Elon Moreh
Chapter 7: The Nowhere Neighborhoods - Palestinian Jerusalem Beyond the
Separation Wall
Chapter 8: Religious Peace - Otniel Yeshiva, Gush Etzion
Chapter 9: Every Peace Initiative Eventually Runs into a Wall - Beit Jala,
Bethlehem
Chapter 10: On Hill 777, the Palestinians are a Rumor - The Itamar Outposts
and Yanun
Chapter 11: In Barta'a They Talk of Arab-Arab Trade, Not Peace - Barta'a
Chapter 12: Noise - Jabel Mukaber and Ras al-Amud, East Jerusalem
Afterword