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In Search of Fatima:

A Palestinian Memoir
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Verso, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 451 pages

An intimate and powerful narrative in which the Israel-Palestine conflict is presented, unusually, from the Palestinian side, In Search of Fatima reflects the author's personal experiences of displacement, loss and nostalgia against a backdrop of the major political events which have shaped Middle East conflict.

In Search of Fatima is a powerful biographical story, but it is also a book which transcends its author's own experience. It speaks for the millions of people all over the world who have lived suspended between their old and new countries, fitting into neither. An account not of the physical hardship and abuse suffered by many refugees, but rather an exploration of the subtler privations of psychological displacement and loss of identity.

  

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Review: In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story

User Review  - Haneen - Goodreads

This is the memoir of Ghada Karmi, who spent 10 years growing up in Palestine until the Nakba exiled her and her family to London. The first half of the book took me a while to get through, but I ... Read full review

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User Review  - Sarah Osman - Goodreads

Excellent book , a combination of history , personal dilemma , a war between what to hold on to and what to let go of .. Read full review

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About the author (2002)

Ghada Karmi was born in Jerusalem and trained as a doctor of medicine at Bristol University. She established the first British-Palestinian medical charity in 1972 and was an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs. Her previous books include The Ethnic Health Factfile and Jerusalem Today: What Future for the Peace Process? and, as co-editor with E. Cotran, The Palestinian Exodus, 1948ndash;1998.

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