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Jerusalemites ...although the story is recounted from the viewpoint and perspective of an individual, it is in many ways the story of the unparalleled tragedy of the Palestinian people."   "The inh...

LONDON EVENING STANDARD

Best Books of the Year The trilogy of Ottoman Jerusalem, Mamluk Jerusalem and now Ayyubid Jerusalem by Sylvia Auld & Robert Hillenbrand (Rimal Publications) is magisterial, brilliantly fascinat...

JORDAND TIMES

Bittersweet Memories Palestinian writer Najwa Kawar Farah has lived in four cities of Palestine - Nazareth, Haifa, Jerusalem and Ramallah - and in three other countries - Lebanon, the UK and Canad...

EMBROIDERY DESIGNS GUIDE

Do They Reveal The Origin? So let's begin with: What is a motif? A motif is basically a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration. It could also...

SUNDAY MAIL

Where the Average Age is 17 The Gaza Strip could so easily have been seen here, had it not been for one simple difference between Cyprus and Palestine: nobody other than Turkey gave them the right...

JORDAN TIMES

A Life of Public Service True to its title, Hazem Nusseibeh's book starts and ends with Jerusalem, the author's birthplace and enduring focus, but in between, "Jerusalemites: A Living Memory" is ch...

CYPRUS WEEKLY

The Flying Journalist Middle East correspondent Gerald Butt says he has lost the appetite for covering wars, but certainly not for flying small planes. "When you are flying you are literally off th...

THE MIDDLE EAST

Life at the Crossroads The latest Israeli war on the Gaza strip, which ended in mid-january this year, was but the latest onslaught on the Territory and its inhabitants in a series stretching back...

AL-QUSD AL-ARABI

Life at the Crossroads All the invaders who set up camp in the city or on its borders left their mark, before moving on. But what the invaders left in the psyche of the people of Gaza was a hatred ...

ADDUSTOUR

Jerusalemites حازم نسيبة يوقع كتاب - "ذكريات مقدسية حية الدستور ـ إلياس محمد سعيد نظَّمتْ مكتبة البستان ومنتدى بيت المقدس مساء أول أمس حفل توقيع كتاب "ذكريات مقدسية حية" لمؤلفه وزير الخارجية الأسبق...

AL GHAD

Nusseibeh Signs His Book The day before yesterday [18 May 2009], the veteran diplomat Hazim Nusseibeh held a book-signing ceremony at the Al-Bustan Bookshop for his new book "Jerusalemites: A Livi...

AL RAI

Jerusalemites This article was published on Sunday 17 May, 2009 in Al Rai newspaper in Arabic. Please click on image to download.

AL-QUDS AL-ARABI

Jerusalemites A Living Memory This article was published in AL QUSD AL ARABIVolume 21 - Issue 6199 - May 11, 2009 - Page 10 in Arabic. Read full article

GCS INFO

Life as a Palestinian Ms Nora Shawwa came to talk to us this term about life as a Palestinian, a life full of hardships that most of us would have never imagined. Palestinians could be described a...

DANISH DAILY INFORMATION

'Gazas omtumlede historier under lup' BBC's tidligere korrespondent Gerald Butt har skrevet en samlet fortælling om Gaza, som strækker sig fra Tuthmosis III til Israels seneste overgreb i vinteren ...

GULF TODAY

Life at the Crossroads & Jerusalemites   Two books on Palestine published this month by Rimal Publications, based in Nicosia, are on display at the Abu Dhabi book fair which opened on Tuesday ...

THE NATIONAL

Author Issues Grim Warning on Gaza NICOSIA - As grieving Gazans rebuild their shattered lives in the aftermath of 's recent onslaught, they can take cold comfort from their remarkably rich and tur...

FINANCIAL MIRROR

Path of a Country Niyazi Kizilyurek was born in the mixed village of Potamia near Nicosia and became a refugee when his family moved to the Turkish Cypriot ghetto Louroujina where he lived until 1...

WASHINGTON REPORT

Palestinian Embroidery Motifs One of the strengths of this book is its presentation of simple patterns of the many embroidery motifs. For anyone interested in using these motifs in modern counted c...

QANTARA

Dresses That Tell Stories Judging by the patterns of the embroidery on a dress, one can determine where someone comes from - almost each Palestinian town has its own unique pattern. Now a newly pub...

LIVING WELL

A Treasury of Stitches "To the Palestinian women of the past and present whose needles magically create A Treasury of Stitches" A Treasury of Stitches is a wonderful memoir that unites motifs crea...

HAARETZ

A Stitch in Time In her book on Palestinian embroidery, an art she decribes as a 'pharmacy of the soul,' Margarita Skinner shows how certain patterns are inextricably linked to specific geographic...

JORDAN TIMES

The Art of the Needle The title of this book is an accurate description of its contents, but it hardly prepares the reader for the sheer beauty to be found within its pages. Of course, traditional ...

GULF TODAY

Motifs of Distinction The beautiful embroidery traditional Palestinian thobe remains the most potent symbol of this occupied and dispersed nation. The checked kuffiyah worn by liberation leader Ya...

DAILY STAR

Kanafani's 'Little Lantern' gets a new lease on life   BEIRUT: The life of Ghassan Kanafani, celebrated Palestinian artist and writer, was commemorated Monday at the American University of Beirut'...

THIS WEEK IN PALESTINE

Life at the Crossroads   It is perhaps a very appropriate year to re-read Gerald Butt's 1995 Life at the Crossroads: A History of Gaza. The many milestones of this 360 sq. km strip of land and par...

HAARETZ

'Lanterns' light up Ramallah   RAMALLAH - What does a childhood without music look like? What does the world look like for children who do not learn to listen to music at school, or to play an ins...

SUNJET MAGAZINE

Tolou and the Cats of Paphos 'So famous was she now for her acts of healing that her name was known Southwards throughout the Akamas peninsula and Northwards as far as Limassol. Over the years she ...

THE GUARDIAN

The Secret City Despite frequent references in the Psalms to "the peace of Jerusalem", the Holy City has probably seen more rapine and pillage than any other comparable patch of ground on the plan...

SUNDAY STAR TIMES

An Island Apart ...this book fits nicely next to Laurence Durrell's Bitter Lemons and Colin Thornton's Journey into Cyprus. On the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus , live about one hundred ex...

SUNJET MAGAZINE

Cyprus An Island Apart Cyprus proved once more to be an inspirational island as the new books celebrate its history, people and beauty.  Cyprus an island apart by Seamus MacHugh is a personal acco...

HERMES MAGAZINE

The Cyprus Connection A mixture of history, culture and personal experience told in a lighter vein. This is truly a wonderful addition to the enormous number of works about the island. Subtitled 'a...

CYPRUS WEEKLY

A Book Apart This is one of the most enjoyable books on Cyprus to appear in a very long time... This book was written, at least partly, in response to a review in the Cyprus Weekly (March 1995) of...

CYPRUS WEEKLY

Phoenician Legends Those of you who have already visited the Italian Embassy's exhibition at the Cyprus Museum on 'Along The Road Of The Phoenicians' and would like to know more about the Phoenicia...

DAILY STAR

Bringing Local Legends to Life 'Her style is simple but eloquent and can be read by both children and adults. Working on simplified stories of legends, Tarnowski garnishes them with vivid imagery ...

MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL

Book Review Gerals Butt has written a lively, intelligent and highly readable history of Gaza , about which precious little exists, especially in English. This work treats Gaza not as a violent, po...

INTL HERALD TRIBUNE

Life at the Crossroads Since January, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of and the Palestinian Authority president, Yasser Arafat, sealed the long awaited agreement to redeploy Israeli troops...

NEW YORK TIMES

A History of Gaza SINCE January, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the Palestinian Authority president, Yasser Arafat, sealed the long awaited agreement to redeploy Israeli troo...

MIDDLE EAST COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

Book Review The Gaza Strip. The phrase conjures up scenes of over-population, turmoil, political unrest, tear gas canisters, Israeli soldiers, crowds of rock-throwing and chafiyyeh-clad youths. Bu...

CHURCH TIMES

A Prize for the Invaders: The Torment of Gaza This is a clever title for a history of Gaza . The Gaza Strip lies geographically on the crossroads between the Near East and North Africa - a land bri...