In Search of Fatima

Book cover of In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story

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Ghada Karmi's acclaimed memoir relates her childhood in Palestine, the flight to Britain after the catastrophe of 1948, and coming of age in the coffee-bars of Golders Green, the middle-class Jewish quarter in North London. A gentle humor describes the bizarre and sometimes tense realities that mask her life in…

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1 author picked In Search of Fatima as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Ilan Pappé

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There is no better way of understanding what it means to be a Palestinian than reading a personal account. When this account is written by one of the veteran activists on behalf of Palestine in the West and a scholar by her own right, the reward is even greater for the reader of this autobiographical tale.

From Ilan's list on understanding modern Palestine.