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Anne Marie Oliver - The Road to Martyrs´ Square: A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber - 9780195305593 - KSS0016655
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The Road to Martyrs´ Square: A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber

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Description for The Road to Martyrs´ Square: A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber Paperback. In this unique study, the authors go deep into the world of the Palestinian group Hamas, in an effort to understand what motivates the young men of the movement to lay down their lives in suicidal act of murder. Num Pages: 304 pages, 85 halftones. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJF; HBLW3; HRA; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 233 x 14. Weight in Grams: 434. Fine copy showing minor shelf wear
Don't expect to find here the usual clichés about suicide bombers and what drives them. In this unique study, Anne Marie Oliver and Paul Steinberg render the story of two intertwining, often clashing journeys. The authors lived for six months with a Palestinian refugee family in Gaza at the beginning of the intifada, and offer a gritty, poetic portrait of the time. They also provide an unrivalled documentary of the underground media they collected during the course of six years in the area. Although they could not have surmised as such at the beginning, they soon found themselves led through ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195305593
SKU
KSS0016655
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Anne Marie Oliver
Anne Marie Oliver and Paul F. Steinberg are writers based in Portland, Oregon. They are Research Scholars in Global and International Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara and former Visiting Scholars at the Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard.

Reviews for The Road to Martyrs´ Square: A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber
Beyond the organization is a broader community that sanctions and celebrates the bomber's actions. In The Road to Martyrs' Square, their remarkable and creepy account of life in the Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, Anne Marie Oliver and Paul F. Steinberg, who lived with various Palestinians there, give us a look at the Hamas milieu from within. It's a ... Read more

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