Drinking the Sea at Gaza Days and Nights in a Land under Siege

Name: Drinking the Sea at Gaza Days and Nights in a Land under Siege
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ISBN: 9780805057409

ISBN-10: 0805057404

ISBN-13: 9780805057409

Edition: Revised

Authors: Amira Hass, Maxine Nunn

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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 Gaza'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…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 6/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Maps


Glossary


Chronology


Introduction



Yearning to Be Free



The Military Governor Has Moved Buildings



Leaflets Among the Diapers



Families Just Like Us



Bougainvillea and a Pile of Rubble



Khalid Switches Parties



As It Is Written in the Quran



Loss



A Tax on Being Alive



We Are from the Same Village



Missing in Action



Bring Home the POWs



Gaza Prison



Yesterday's Permit



Waiting to Turn Forty



The Engine Has Stalled



A People Up in Arms


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index