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A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza
Dervla Murphy
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Paperback. A MONTH BY THE SEA gives unique insight into the way in which isolation has shaped this society: how it radicalises young men and plays into the hands of dominating patriarchs, yet also how it hardens determination not to give in and turns family into a towering source of support. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 356.
Over the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters, rich and poor. Used to western reporters dashing in and out of the Strip in times of crisis, the people she met were touched by her genuine, unflinching interest and spoke openly to her about life in their open-air prison. What she finds are a people who, far from the story we are so often fed, overwhelmingly long for peace and an end to the violence that has so grossly distorted their lives. The impression we take ... Read more
Over the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters, rich and poor. Used to western reporters dashing in and out of the Strip in times of crisis, the people she met were touched by her genuine, unflinching interest and spoke openly to her about life in their open-air prison. What she finds are a people who, far from the story we are so often fed, overwhelmingly long for peace and an end to the violence that has so grossly distorted their lives. The impression we take ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Eland Publishing Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780600673
SKU
9781780600673
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Ref
99-1
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