In my mother's footsteps : a Palestinian refugee returns home
Halaby, Mona2021
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When Mona moved from California to Ramallah to teach conflict resolution in a school for a year, she kept a journal. Within its pages, she wrote her impressions of her homeland, a place she had only experienced through her mother's memories. As she settled into her teaching role, getting to know her students and the challenges they faced living in a militarized, occupied town, Mona also embarked on a personal pilgrimage to find her mother's home in Jerusalem. Mona had dreamed of being guided by her mother down the old souqs, and the leafy streets of her neighborhood, listening to the muezzin's call for prayer and the medley of church bells. But after fifty-nine years of exile, it was Mona's mother who held her daughter's hand as they visited Jerusalem together, walking the narrow cobblestone alleys of the Old City. Their roles were reversed. Mona had become her Mama's legs and her memory - and the one to tell her story going forward.
Main title:
In my mother's footsteps : a Palestinian refugee returns home / Mona Hajjar Halaby.
Author:
Halaby, Mona, author
Imprint:
London : Thread, 2021.
Collation:
352 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781909770645 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2291248