Det er sommeren 1982 og Beirut er under belejring. 18-årige Ivans forældre er lige blevet evakueret fra byen med andre medlemmer af Den Palæstinensiske Befrielsesorganisation. Ivan bliver i byen og bliver venner med Eli, en norsk fysioterapeut. Men begivenhederne tager en ubehag…
Det er sommeren 1982 og Beirut er under belejring. 18-årige Ivans forældre er lige blevet evakueret fra byen med andre medlemmer af Den Palæstinensiske Befrielsesorganisation. Ivan bliver i byen og bliver venner med Eli, en norsk fysioterapeut. Men begivenhederne tager en ubehag…
Memoires van de Amerikaanse cultuurfilosoof van Palestijnse origine tot 1967, waarbij zijn leven als vluchteling in Egypte en Libanon tot aan het begin van zijn studie in Harvard centraal staat.
Since the mid-1970s, Lebanon has been at the center of the worldwide rise in sectarian extremism. Its cultural output has both mediated and resisted this rise. Standing by the Ruins reviews the role of culture in supporting sectarianism, yet argues for the emergence of a distinc…
Salafism, comprised of fundamentalist Islamic movements whose adherents consider themselves the only "saved" sect of Islam, has been little studied, remains shrouded in misconceptions, and has provoked new interest as Salafists have recently staked a claim to power in some Arab …
A portrait of a group of Bedouins in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, a population with the highest fertility rate in the world
"First published in Beirut in 1973, these probing essays ask vital questions about the existentially complex realities the Palestinians in Israel face and the ambiguity of Darwish's own identity as an Israeli Palestinian."--Title page verso.
