We Just Want to Live Here: A Palestinian Teenager, an Israli Teenager -- an Unlikely Friendship
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0312318944
ISBN 13
9780312318949
Category
Middle East
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Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Pages
176
Description
Palestinian Amal Rifa'i and Israeli Odelia Ainbinder are two teenage girls who live in the same city, yet worlds apart. They met on a student exchange program to Switzerland. Weeks after they returned, the latest, violent Intifada broke out in the fall of 2000.But two years later, Middle East correspondent Sylke Tempel encouraged Amal and Odelia to develop their friendship by facilitating an exchange of their deepest feelings through letters. In their letters, Amal and Odelia discuss the Intifada, their families, traditions, suicide bombers, and military service. They write frankly of their anger, frustrations, and fear, but also of their hopes and dreams for a brighter future.Together, Amal and Odelia give us a renewed sense of hope for peace in the Middle East, in We Just Want To Live Here. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
