Author: Josias Leslie Porter
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Category : Palestine
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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A Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine ...
Author: Josias Leslie Porter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Palestine
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Palestine
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Palestine and Syria
Author: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Category : Palestine
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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Publisher:
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Category : Palestine
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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A Handbook for Travelers in Syria and Palestine...
Author: Josias Leslie Porter
Publisher:
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Category : Palestine
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Palestine
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Palestine and Syria
Author: Thomas Cook Ltd
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Category : Palestine
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Category : Palestine
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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The Handbook of Palestine
Author: Sir Harry Luke
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Category : Eretz Israel
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Category : Eretz Israel
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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A Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine
Author: Josias Leslie Porter
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Exile
Author: Belén Fernández
Publisher: OR Books
ISBN: 1682191893
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Che Guevara left Argentina at 22. At 21, Belén Fernández left the U.S. and didn’t look back. Alone, far off the beaten path in places like Syria and Tajikistan, she reflects on what it means to be an American in a largely American-made mess of a world. After growing up in Washington, D.C. and Texas, and then attending Columbia University in New York, Belén Fernández ended up in a state of self-imposed exile from the United States. From trekking—through Europe, the Middle East, Morocco, and Latin America—to packing avocados in southern Spain, to close encounters with a variety of unpredictable men, to witnessing the violent aftermath of the 2009 coup in Honduras, the international travel allowed her by an American passport has, ironically, given her a direct view of the devastating consequences of U.S. machinations worldwide. For some years Fernández survived thanks to the generosity of strangers who picked her up hitchhiking, fed her, and offered accommodations; then she discovered people would pay her for her powerful, unfiltered journalism, enabling—as of the present moment—continued survival. In just a few short years of publishing her observations on world politics and writing from places as varied as Lebanon, Italy, Uzbekistan, Syria, Mexico, Turkey, Honduras, and Iran, Belén Fernández has established herself as a one of the most trenchant observers of America’s interventions around the world, following in the footsteps of great foreign correspondents such as Martha Gellhorn and Susan Sontag.
Publisher: OR Books
ISBN: 1682191893
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Che Guevara left Argentina at 22. At 21, Belén Fernández left the U.S. and didn’t look back. Alone, far off the beaten path in places like Syria and Tajikistan, she reflects on what it means to be an American in a largely American-made mess of a world. After growing up in Washington, D.C. and Texas, and then attending Columbia University in New York, Belén Fernández ended up in a state of self-imposed exile from the United States. From trekking—through Europe, the Middle East, Morocco, and Latin America—to packing avocados in southern Spain, to close encounters with a variety of unpredictable men, to witnessing the violent aftermath of the 2009 coup in Honduras, the international travel allowed her by an American passport has, ironically, given her a direct view of the devastating consequences of U.S. machinations worldwide. For some years Fernández survived thanks to the generosity of strangers who picked her up hitchhiking, fed her, and offered accommodations; then she discovered people would pay her for her powerful, unfiltered journalism, enabling—as of the present moment—continued survival. In just a few short years of publishing her observations on world politics and writing from places as varied as Lebanon, Italy, Uzbekistan, Syria, Mexico, Turkey, Honduras, and Iran, Belén Fernández has established herself as a one of the most trenchant observers of America’s interventions around the world, following in the footsteps of great foreign correspondents such as Martha Gellhorn and Susan Sontag.
Jerusalem, Bethany and Bethlehem
Author: Josias Leslie Porter
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Category : Bethany
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Category : Bethany
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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A Short Border Handbook
Author: Gazmend Kapllani
Publisher: Portobello Books
ISBN: 1846275725
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
'It is not a recognized mental illness like agoraphobia or depression ... It's largely a matter of luck whether one suffers from border syndrome: it depends where you were born. I was born in Albania.' After spending his childhood and school years in Albania, imagining that the miniskirts and quiz shows of Italian state TV were the reality of life in the West, and fantasizing accordingly about living on the other side of the border, the death of Hoxha at last enables Gazmend Kapllani to make his escape. However, on arriving in the Promised Land, he finds neither lots of willing leggy lovelies nor a warm welcome from his long-lost Greek cousins. Instead, he gets banged up in a detention centre in a small border town. As Gazi and his fellow immigrants try to find jobs, they begin to plan their future lives in Greece, imagining riches and successes which always remain just beyond their grasp. The sheer absurdity of both their plans and their new lives is overwhelming. Both detached and involved, ironic and emotional, Kapllani interweaves the story of his experience with meditations upon 'border syndrome' - a mental state, as much as a geographical experience - to create a brilliantly observed, amusing and perceptive debut.
Publisher: Portobello Books
ISBN: 1846275725
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
'It is not a recognized mental illness like agoraphobia or depression ... It's largely a matter of luck whether one suffers from border syndrome: it depends where you were born. I was born in Albania.' After spending his childhood and school years in Albania, imagining that the miniskirts and quiz shows of Italian state TV were the reality of life in the West, and fantasizing accordingly about living on the other side of the border, the death of Hoxha at last enables Gazmend Kapllani to make his escape. However, on arriving in the Promised Land, he finds neither lots of willing leggy lovelies nor a warm welcome from his long-lost Greek cousins. Instead, he gets banged up in a detention centre in a small border town. As Gazi and his fellow immigrants try to find jobs, they begin to plan their future lives in Greece, imagining riches and successes which always remain just beyond their grasp. The sheer absurdity of both their plans and their new lives is overwhelming. Both detached and involved, ironic and emotional, Kapllani interweaves the story of his experience with meditations upon 'border syndrome' - a mental state, as much as a geographical experience - to create a brilliantly observed, amusing and perceptive debut.
A Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine
Author: Josias Leslie Porter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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