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When the birds stopped singing : life in Ramallah under siege / Raja Shehadeh.

Title: When the birds stopped singing : life in Ramallah under siege / Raja Shehadeh.
Author: Shehadeh, Raja, 1951-
Publication: South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Press, c2003.

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Description

viii, 152 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

"The Israeli army invaded Ramallah in March 2002. A tank stood at the end of Raja Shehadeh's road; Israeli soldiers patrolled from the roof tops. Four soldiers took over his brother's apartment and then used him as a human shield as they went through the building, while his wife tried to keep her composure for the sake of their frightened children, ages four and six." "This is an account of what it is like to be under siege: the terror, the frustrations, the humiliations, and the rage. How do you pass your time when you are imprisoned in your own home? What do you do when you cannot cross the neighborhood to help your sick mother?"
"When the Birds Stopped Singing is a book of the moment, a chronicle of life today as lived by ordinary Palestinians throughout the West Bank and Gaza in the grip of the most stringent Israeli security measures in years. And yet it is also an enduring document at once literary and of great political import, that should serve as a cautionary tale for today's and future generations."--Jacket.

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Originally published as: When the Bulbul stopped singing. London : Profile, 2003.

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ISBN

1586420690 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003009597

OCLC

52153874

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