Download or read book The Romance of Palestine written by James W. Lee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Romance of Palestine: A History for Young People, Containing Over One Hundred and Fifty Original Photographs and Pen Pictures of the Castles, Temples, Cities, Mountains, Rivers, Battle-Fields, Classic Groves, Enchanted Gardens and Great People, Which Illustrate the History, Li The eyes of the world at present are turned toward Palestine. The Emperor of Germany is now making great preparations to be present in Jeru salem during the Easter season of 1898. There is a peculiar interest felt everywhere in the development amongst the Jews of the tendency known as Zionism, which found expression recently at the Congress of Jews at Bale, Switzerland, where one wealthy Israelite offered to contribute fifty million dollars for the purchase of Palestine from the Sultan of Turkey. Wealthy in the Western world, poor and down-trodden in the East, the Jews remain a notable factor in the civilization of mankind. If, as seems probable, the Jews of the West help the Jews of the East to migrate to the home of their race, there will be accomplished one of the most startling events in history. Almost every power in Europe has some interest in Palestine, and would be immediately concerned in the migration. In these pages readers will find just the information they want regarding the conditions of the Holy Land to-day in respect to this problem. The land of the Bible remains, and is likely to remain, the most inter esting tract on the surface of the globe. Its history since Abraham moved westward from the Euphrates and settled on the uplands beside Hebron is a grand epic, touching every chord that vibrates in the human breast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Hassan a Fellah written by Henry Gillman and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hassan written by Henry Gillman and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Romance of Palestine written by James Wideman Lee and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hassan written by Henry Gillman and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book HASSAN written by Henry 1833-1915 Gillman and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Romance of the Last Crusade written by Vivian Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Palestinian Lover written by Sélim Nassib and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Selim Nassib's sharply observed novel tells a deeply human story that will be of intense interest to anyone concerned about the Middle East, its present conflict and possibilities for its future." "Albert Pharaon, heir to an enormous fortune, son of a rich Palestinian family, bored banker, has a lover in Haifa. And not just any lover: she is Jewish; she is a militant Zionist; she is the young Golda Meir, future Prime Minister of Israel. Love and allegiance clash in this historical novel about one of the twentieth century's central political figures." "Selim Nassib evokes the atmosphere of Palestine in the nineteen-twenties as he mixes history, biography, and legend - creating a bold, fictionalized account of a complex and tumultuous relationship."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Literary Imagination in Israel Palestine written by H. Cohen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a cutting-edge critical analysis of the trope of miscegenation and its biopolitical implications in contemporary Palestinian and Israeli literature, poetry, and discourse. The relationship between nationalism and demographics are examined through the narrative and poetic intrigue of intimacy between Arabs and Jews, drawing from a range of theoretical perspectives, including public sphere theory, orientalism, and critical race studies. Revisiting the controversial Brazilian writer Gilberto Freyre, who championed miscegenation in his revisionary history of Brazil, the book deploys a comparative investigation of Palestinian and Israeli writers' preoccupation with the mixed romance. Author Hella Bloom Cohen offers new interpretations of works by Mahmoud Darwish, A.B. Yehoshua, Orly Castel-Bloom, Nathalie Handal, and Rula Jebreal, among others.
Download or read book The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing 1790 1876 written by Brian Yothers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to engage with the full range of American travel writing about nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the late-eighteenth-century Barbary captivity narrative on nineteenth-century travel writing about the Middle East. Brian Yothers argues that American travel writing about the Holy Land forms a coherent, if greatly varied, tradition, which can only be fully understood when works by major writers such as Twain and Melville are studied alongside missionary accounts, captivity narratives, chronicles of religious pilgrimages, and travel writing in the genteel tradition. Yothers also examines works by lesser-known authors such as Bayard Taylor, John Lloyd Stephens, and Clorinda Minor, demonstrating that American travel writing is marked by a profound intertextuality with the Hebrew and Christian scriptures and with British and continental travel narratives about the Holy Land. His concluding chapter on Melville's Clarel shows how Melville's poem provides an incisive critique of the nascent imperial discourse discernible in the American texts with which it is in dialogue.
Download or read book Love and War in British Palestine written by Gad Shimron and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'LOVE AND WAR IN BRITISH PALESTINE' is an unusual love affair that takes place in Jerusalem in the 1930s and 40s. Tamar-Henrietta Landwehr, a Viennese Jewish refugee, falls in love with Wolfgang Schwarte, a German man born in Jerusalem's German Colony. Heavy social pressure devastates the impossible relationship between Jewish Tamar and the Christian Wolfgang, offspring of the Templer community, many of which were active Nazis and supporters of the Third Reich. Heartbroken and devastated, Wolfgang returns to Germany to pursue his studies. When the Second World War breaks, he is drafted as a commando paratrooper and finds himself dropped over Jericho to sabotage behind British lines. Tamar, who was trying to forget him, is astounded to spot him in Jerusalem in the summer of 1942, just as newspaper headlines are heralding Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrikan Korps' invasion to Palestine"--
Download or read book Hassan a Fellah A Romance of Palestine Classic Reprint written by Henry Gillman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hassan a Fellah; A Romance of Palestine It gladdened the heart to see so much perfection in a man. The almost uniform equality of the fine bronze of his skin told of his habitual disregard of dress. His head, for the time being without any other covering than its thickly-clustering raven-black hair, was bent slightly forward, the chin resting on his right hand. His dark hazel eyes looked out confidently from under the pair of strongly accentuated curves - narrow black dashes - that formed his brows, and which seemed like marks of attention inviting to the inspection of his beauty. The dress, doubtless, was similar to that worn by David as he kept the sheep of his father Jesse - a dress sanctioned by the usage of scores upon scores of generations of the men of the country. To-day the unbreeched peasant of Palestine, free of all constraint, immodestly innocent of all shame in his state of semi-nudity, goes his way in unconfined liberty of heart and limb, wearing the vesture that Abraham wore, and with the motion and action of a lord of creation. Habit and custom are everything; and no offence is taken where none is meant. No raiment, to be dress at all, could certainly be less conventional. But it had its advantages. It was suited to the climate and the people, and its very simplicity made it graceful, and permitted full and wholesome ventilation of all parts of the body. Its longest sweep reached little below the knee; and, as occasion required, it could be tucked up and rendered much shorter. If it had the stains of the outdoor life upon it, the odour of the pasture also clung about it; and, as old Isaac said, it had "the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed." For cold weather, and morning and evening wear, was the heavy brown and white striped abai, woven of camel's or goat's hair. This was waterproof, and a perfect protection from the storm; and, wrapped in it, a man could sleep comfortably out-of-doors all night. And peasants, and especially shepherds, as the season demanded, also often might be seen in a short coat or jacket formed of sheepskin, the woolly side turned in or next the body. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Dreaming of Palestine written by Randa Ghazy and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daughter of Palestine written by Yong Jen Ong and published by Liberty Hill Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many of us would willingly forsake a long-held belief for the sake of love? What kind of risks are we capable of undertaking in pursuit of a meaningful connection? At what point do our feelings about the nations, systems, and people we interact with need to be held in high importance? In Daughter of Palestine, author Victor Yong Jen Ong answers these questions and more in this novel full of history, international politics, cultural divide, romance, manipulation, and deception. At a seminar in Malaysia, a Chinese man and a Palestinian woman meet who will affect each other's lives in significant and unexpected ways. Gabriel, an important director with Interamerica, and Yasmin, a researcher with the West Pacific Institute, each harbor distinct and opposing ideas about the world. But when a relationship begins to form between them, later involving their families and influenced by current affairs, it may prove to have disastrous consequences for all involved. Inspired by the author's own observations about troubling global attitudes, specifically regarding the United States, this book explores far-reaching themes on an intimate and personal scale. Victor Jen is Malaysian and descendant of a six-hundred year-old overseas Chinese community. Critical of the Communist Democratic movement, Jen leads young adults in international bridging endeavors, camps and expeditions and serves in political advocacy for right-of-center coalitions in Malaysia. He qualified in global affairs and international security at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and corporate governance at the Federation University in Australia.
Download or read book Reimagining Israel and Palestine in Contemporary British and German Culture written by Isabelle Hesse and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabelle Hesse identifies an important relational turn in British and German literature, TV drama, and film published and produced since the First Palestinian Intifada (1987-1993). This turn manifests itself on two levels: one, in representing Israeli and Palestinian histories and narratives as connected rather than separate, and two, by emphasising the links between the current situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the roles that the United Kingdom and Germany have played historically, and continue to play, in the region. This relational turn constitutes a significant shift in representations of Israel and Palestine in British and German culture as these depictions move beyond an engagement with the Holocaust and Jewish suffering at the expense of Palestinian suffering and indicate a willingness to represent and acknowledge British and German involvement in Israeli and Palestinian politics. This book offers new ways of thinking about how Israel and Palestine are imagined and reimagined as topics of cultural and political interest in two countries that have had complicated histories with both Israel and Palestine, histories which are marked by each country's memories of the Holocaust and colonialism.
Download or read book Absolution A Palestinian Israeli Love Story written by R. F. Georgy and published by Parthenon Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It used to be a universally accepted axiom that the Palestinian Israeli conflict is an intractable and immovable impasse of epic proportion. Its Sisyphean nature cemented its reputation as an insoluble focal point of hatred and endless violence. Such universal truths, of course, derive their power and resonance from within the constraints of geography, ideology, and the construction of the imagination that is always trapped under the feeble nature of temporal movement. One can certainly say that Jewish history is filled with the grotesquery of blind hatred; that Jews were singularly reduced to an alienated other. Their disjointed and fractured identity was preserved only by the portability of a religion that would help them survive the darkest hours. But fate is not without irony, as the Palestinians were forced to accept the collective guilt of all those who committed unspeakable acts against the Jews. The Palestinians had to endure the systematic dispossession of their land and loss of identity. They were forced to accept defeat as a bitter reminder of their subaltern status in a world of proud nation states. Palestinians and Israelis were connected by a fatalistic dialectic, whose movement was punctuated by violence and directed towards an apocalyptic conclusion. One might argue that this dialectic enveloped a land, mythical and actual, spiritual yet earth-bound, ancient yet very much poised towards unfolding actualities. This land conjures images of return and redemptive possibilities. Palestine and Israel are two strands intertwined in our collective imagination. They are linguistically exclusive and yet reference a singular place. We are embarking on a peaceful resolution to a conflict that has left deep psychological scars. Of course, peace is not determined by the signage of treaties or the wishes of leaders. Peace is not a discrete event; rather it is a renewable proposition, filled with affirmations designed to mitigate against the collective distrust of two people who knew little beyond hatred, suspicion, blame and counter blame, intellectual gamesmanship, fear, paranoia, historical necessity, retribution, and a host of other deeply engrained emotional projections that are constantly lurking beneath the surface. -Prologue Absolution is a love story unlike any other. It is a love that transcends the oceanic chasms that have come to define one of the most intractable conflicts in modern history. It is the year 2018 and Israel's Prime Minister, Avi Eban, is in Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. One year earlier, on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Israel and the Palestinians forged a peace that resulted in the creation of Palestine. What the world did not know was the story behind the peace- a story of hope and redemptive possibilities.
Download or read book My First and Only Love written by Sahar Khalifeh and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply poetic account of love and resistance through a young girl’s eyes by acclaimed writer, Sahar Khalifeh, called "the Virginia Woolf of Palestinian literature” (Börsenblatt) Nidal, after many decades of restless exile, returns to her family home in Nablus, where she had lived with her grandmother before the 1948 Nakba that scattered her family across the globe. She was a young girl when the popular resistance began and, through the bloodshed and bitter struggle, Nidal fell in love with freedom fighter Rabie. He was her first and only real love—him and all that he represented: Palestine in its youth, the resistance fighters in the hills, the nation as embodied in her family home and in the land. Many years later, Nidal and Rabie meet, and he encourages her to read her uncle Amin’s memoirs. She immerses herself in the details of her family and national past and discovers the secret history of her absent mother. Filled with emotional urgency and political immediacy, Sahar Khalifeh spins an epic tale reaching from the final days of the British Mandate to today with clear-eyed realism and great imagination.
