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Journey From A Palestinian Refugee Camp to America
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- Jamal Kanj's
biography provides an invaluable prism through which to comprehend the
simple truth that Israelis and Palestinians both love the same land.
Transcending facile black-white thinking, he humbly weaves his life story
as a refugee in Lebanon into often misunderstood facets of Middle East
politics. By honestly portraying heart-rending stories of his family's
pain, he lifts the veil that continues to obscure Palestinians' humanity
and dignity. For anyone wishing to grasp the contradictions and complexity
of the Middle East, this book is required reading."
George Katsiaficas, author of The Imagination
of the New Left and The Subversion of Politics
- "Jamal Kanj’s Children of Catastrophe: Journey
from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America is a moving and powerful
narrative. Its gripping details are weaved through personal and collective
accounts, which relay the story of Palestinian Diaspora through the life
of the author and his family. Kanj’s personal story of the refugee camp of
Nahr El Bared paints an unmatched picture of the realities that shaped the
impoverished refugee camp, from its early formations to its violent
presence. Such narratives are of immense import, for such accounts
humanize a place, and a people who have been seen for too long as mere
subjects of statistical data and academic discussion. There are people,
faces, personal tragedies and triumphs, dreams that were crushed and
others waiting to be fulfilled in Nahr El Bared – as well as in the rest
of the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, and elsewhere. Kanj tells the
stories of these resolute people, steadfast even in their weakest moments,
through his own."
Ramzy Baroud, author of The
Second Palestinian Intifada and Searching Jenin
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