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"The only memoir in English by a Palestinian Arab who grew up in the Beersheba district prior to 1948. Salman Abu Sitta was just ten years old when the Nakba-the mass expulsion of Palestinians in 1948-happened, forcing him from his home near Beersheba. Like many Palestinians of his generation, this traumatic loss and his enduring desire to return would be the defining features of his life from that moment on. Abu Sitta vividly evokes the vanished world of his family and home on the eve of the Nakba, giving a personal and very human face to the dramatic events of 1930s and 1940s Palestine as Zionist ambitions and militarization expanded under the British mandate. He chronicles his life in exile, from his family's flight to Gaza, his teenage years as a student in Nasser's Egypt, his formative years in 1960s London, his life as a family man and academic in Canada, to several sojourns in Kuwait. Abu Sitta's long and winding journey has taken him through many of the seismic events of the era, from the 1956 Suez War to the 1991 Gulf War. This rich and moving memoir is imbued throughout with a burning sense of justice and a determination to recover and document what rightfully belongs to his people, given expression in his groundbreaking mapping work on his homeland. Abu Sitta, with warmth and wit, tells his story and that of Palestine"--
Sommario
Preface and Acknowledgments
1. The Source
2. Seeds of Knowledge
3. The Talk of the Hearth
4. Europe Returns to the Holy Land
5. The Conquest
6. The Rupture
7. The Carnage
8. Refugees' Lives
9. Crossing the Line to Return
10. Egyptian Days
11. Nadid
12. Ghaleb
13. My Battlefield
14. Britannia Rules the Waves
15. Building the Country
16. The Naksa and Eskimo Land
17. Working with the Facts on the Ground
18. On the Political Front
19. The Invisible Face of the Enemy Takes Shape
20. Charting the Land
21. Wakeup Call
22. The Last Mile
Info autore
Salman Abu Sitta was born in 1937 in Ma‘in Abu Sitta, in the Beersheba district of mandate Palestine. An engineer by profession, he is best known for his cartographic work on Palestine and his work on the Palestinian Right of Return. He is the author of six books and over 300 articles and papers on Palestine, including
The Atlas of Palestine, 1917–1966 (2010). He is the founder and president of the Palestine Land Society, and founder of the Palestine Land Studies Center at the American University of Beirut.
