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Pulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.
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Politics and government, Family, Arab-Israeli conflict, Consuls, American Personal narratives, Jewish-Arab relations, Family relationships, American Colony (Jerusalem), Childhood and youth, Biography, History, Middle east, biography, Arab-israeli conflict, Jewish-arab relations, Middle east, politics and government, American Authors, AmericansPeople
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20th century, 1945-1979Showing 8 featured editions. View all 8 editions?
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Divided City: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
2011, Simon & Schuster, Limited
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1849831041 9781849831048
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Divided City: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis
2010, Simon & Schuster, Limited
in English
0857200194 9780857200198
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Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
May 11, 2010, HighBridge Audio
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Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: coming of age between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
2010, Scribner
in English
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Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
May 11, 2010, HighBridge Audio
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Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: coming of age between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
2010, Scribner
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Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: coming of age between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
2010, Scribner
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Divided City: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis
Publish date unknown, Simon & Schuster Ltd
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-405) and index.
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This book is Pulitzer Prize winner Kai Bird's fascinating memoir of his early years spent in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon. Bird provides an original and illuminating perspective into the Arab-Israeli conflict. Weeks before the Suez War of 1956, four-year-old Kai Bird, son of a garrulous, charming American Foreign Service officer, moved to Jerusalem with his family. They settled in a small house, where young Kai could hear church bells and the Muslim call to prayer and watch as donkeys and camels competed with cars for space on the narrow streets. Each day on his way to school, Kai was driven through Mandelbaum Gate, where armed soldiers guarded the line separating Israeli-controlled West Jerusalem from Arab-controlled East. He had a front-seat view to both sides of a divided city -- and the roots of the widening conflict between Arabs and Israelis. Bird would spend much of his life crossing such lines -- as a child in Jerusalem, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, and later, as a young man in Lebanon. Crossing Mandelbaum Gate is his compelling personal history of growing up an American in the midst of three major wars and three turbulent decades in the Middle East. The Zelig-like Bird brings readers into such conflicts as the Suez War, the Six Day War of 1967, and the Black September hijackings in 1970 that triggered the Jordanian civil war. Bird vividly portrays such emblematic figures as the erudite George Antonius, author of The Arab Awakening; Jordan's King Hussein; the Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled; Salem bin Laden, Osama's older brother and a family friend; Saudi King Faisal; President Nasser of Egypt; and Hillel Kook, the forgotten rescuer of more than 100,000 Jews during World War II. Bird, his parents sympathetic to Palestinian self-determination and his wife the daughter of two Holocaust survivors, has written a masterful and highly accessible book -- at once a vivid chronicle of a life spent between cultures as well as a consummate history of a region in turmoil. It is an indispensable addition to the literature on the modern Middle East. - Publisher.
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