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Crossing Mandelbaum Gate : coming of age between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 / Kai Bird.
- Title
- Crossing Mandelbaum Gate : coming of age between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 / Kai Bird.
- Author
- Bird, Kai
- Publication
- New York : Scribner, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | DS109.86.B56 A3 2010 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvii, 424 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Pulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.
- Subject
- Bird, Kai > Childhood and youth
- Bird, Kai > Family
- American Colony (Jerusalem) > Biography
- 1900-1999
- Arab-Israeli conflict > Personal narratives, American
- Jewish-Arab relations > History > 20th century
- Consuls > Family relationships > Jerusalem
- Consuls > Family relationships > Dhahran
- Jerusalem > Biography
- Dhahran (Saudi Arabia) > Biography
- Middle East > Politics and government > 1945-1979
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Personal narratives
- Biographies
- History
- Personal narratives – American
- Biographies.
- Récits personnels.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-405) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Arabs. Jerusalem ; On the road to Suez ; The magic kingdom ; Arabia: "progress without change" -- Defeating Arab modernity. Cario and Nasser's Egypt, 1965-1967 ; "A man without a country," 1967-1970 ; Black September, 1970 -- Jews, Israelis and the Shoah. The night of broken glass ; The Hebrew republic.
- ISBN
- 9781416544401 (hc.)
- 1416544402 (hc.)
- 9781416544418 (pbk.)
- 1416544410 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2009052243
- OCLC
- 424555301
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library