Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland PDF
Preview Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland
Praise for Fast Times in Palestine “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—and in doing so lays bare the human drama of a people… determined to live free.” —TONY KARON, Senior Editor, TIME “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 Fast Times in Palestine Pamela J. Olson Copyright 2011 Pamela J. Olson This book is available in print at Amazon.com Visit www.pamolson.org to learn more Other Books by Pamela J. Olson Siberian Travels Camp Golden Shaft The Fable of Megastan The Brimming Void Tribute for Ronan Table of Contents CHAPTER 1: From the Midwest to the Middle East Border Prologue Degree of Freedom The Sinai Eye of the Storm CHAPTER 2: Olives, Tea, and Assault Rifles Galilee Into the West Bank Jayyous The Wall Olive Rain Surrounded Rania’s House Yusif’s Islam Qais Ramadan CHAPTER 3: Behind the Fence Nablus Dan in Israel Ramadan Daze Dan in Palestine Thunderstorm Helicopters and Hellfire Settlement The Eid The Last Picnic Home Again CHAPTER 4: Ramallah—Palestine has its own Beer? Ben Gurion Airport Ramallah The Muqataa Office Life Sangria’s Invasion Party Yasmine Ramallah International Film Festival Cops and Robbers Cold War and Peace CHAPTER 5: Suddenly a Journalist Jayyous Nights Grapevines and Sea Breezes Amman Again Home Sweet Ramallah Dead Sea Stroll Arabian Idol Bethlehem’s Walls Goons. Hired Goons. An Offer I Couldn’t Refuse CHAPTER 6: Bombings, Weddings, and a Kidnapping Suicide Bomb Checkpoint Wedding Disappeared Osama the Commie Shoot ’em Up Zeitoun Another Bombing Days of Penitence CHAPTER 7: Arafat’s Funeral Ramallah Ramadan Rest in Peace, Abu Ammar Holiday in Jayyous Omar’s Story My Boss Decides to Run for President CHAPTER 8: Running for President in a Nation without a Country Announcement on the Run Beaten in the Street Christmas: Dire Straits in Bethlehem Mass Destruction New Year’s in a Garden on the Moon Shifting and Swifting Election Day CHAPTER 9: Holy Land Spring Gunpoint Winter Living Eid al Adha Ceasefire Suicide Bomber’s Family Shunned Thuglife Nablus in April Passover Bab al Shams CHAPTER 10: The Grand Tour Deep in Enemy Territory Okies in the Promised Land Rum Night Civil Society’s Unified Call Tel Aviv with Nick CHAPTER 11: The Gaza Disengagement Disengagement Thoughts Sultans of Swank East Jerusalem Outrage Hip Hop and a Grenade Disengagement Fever Israeli Musicians Discover Ramallah What Ceasefire? Drinking by the Sea in Gaza
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