商品簡介
Born ten years after the Nakba (the Arabic word for "catastrophe," denoting Palestinian refugee exodus that attended the creation of the state of Israel), Jamal Kanj was born and raised in Lebanon in the Nahr El Bared refugee camp, which was recently destroyed by the Lebanese Army during fighting with Fatah al Islam, before immigrating to the United States. In this memoir, he describes life growing up in the camp, focusing on both the daily life of Palestinians in the camp and on the politics of the refugees (Kanj himself became a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization). He also includes a chapter discussing the 2007 destruction of the camp. Distributed in the US by International Publishers Marketing. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
JAMAL KANJ was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon ten years after the creation of the state of Israel. He moved to the United States in late 1977, and has been active in various local and national political organizations. He is a cofounder of the Middle East Cultural and Information Center in San Diego and served as the Secretary General for the US chapter of the General Union of Palestine Students. Today, Kanj is a professional engineer who works on water infrastructure management.
