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Fast Times In Palestine
| Author: | Pamela J. Olson |
| Category: | The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict And The Liberation Of Jerusalem And Palestine [Edit] |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Mason Hill Press |
| ISBN: | 615456243 |
| Release Date: | 01 Jan 2011 |
| Rank: | 725,754 No 1 most popular |
| Short link: | Copy |
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Pamela Olson, a small town girl from eastern Oklahoma, had what she always wanted: a physics degree from Stanford University. But instead of feeling excited for what came next, she felt consumed by dread and confusion. This irresistible memoir chronicles her journey from aimless ex-bartender to Ramallah-based journalist and foreign press coordinator for a Palestinian presidential candidate. With dizzying speed she finds herself attending Yasser Arafat's funeral, sharing a holiday dinner with a suicide bomber's family, tour-guiding Israeli friends around the West Bank, dating a Palestinian from a conservative Muslim village, being held at gunpoint and injured by a stun grenade, and witnessing the 2005 Disengagement from inside the Gaza Strip. The gripping narrative focuses not only on violence, terror, and social and political upheavals but also on the daily rounds of house parties, concerts, barbecues, weddings, jokes, harvests, and romantic drama that happen in between. Its seamless blend of travelogue, memoir, and narrative journalism ramps the average American up to a sophisticated, multi-faceted understanding of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Funny, gorgeous, shocking, and galvanizing, Fast Times in Palestine challenges the way we think not only about the Middle East but albout human nature and our place in the world. REVIEWS "A moving, inspiring account of life in Palestine that's enormously informative yet reads like a novel!" -- Rebecca Vilkomerson, Executive Director, Jewish Voice for Peace "It's love in the time of occupation as Pamela Olson... takes us on the emotional roller-coaster of her very personal experience of life in Ramallah... A charming book brimming with tension and tragedy, but also with the humor, warmth, everyday foibles and irrepressible hopes of a people determined to live free." -- Tony Karon, Senior Editor, TIME Magazine "Part adventure story, part searing reportage, part love story, and wholly absorbing." -- Dr. Kenneth Ring, co-author, Letters from Palestine "Pamela Olson leads the reader on an exciting, funny, at times heart-wrenching journey, carefully deciphering complex political and historical issues. Olson is a talented writer, intelligent and exceptional in her ability to convey both tragedy and hope, remaining morally grounded and refreshingly honest." -- Ramzy Baroud, Author, My Father was a Freedom Fighter "As an Israeli whose life was shaped by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I found Fast Times in Palestine moving and refreshing. Pamela Olson comes to the Middle East with a blank slate and is therefore able to hold up an undistorted mirror to the reality she encounters." -- Miko Peled, Author, The General's Son For more information, visit pamolson.org
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