Return: A Palestinian Memoir, by Ghada Karmi
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An extraordinary memoir of exile and the impossibility of finding home, from the author of In Search of Fatima“The journey filled me with bitterness and grief. I remember looking down on a nighttime Tel Aviv from the windows of a place taking me back to London and thinking hopelessly, ‘flotsam and jetsam, that’s what we’ve become, scattered and divided. There’s no room for us or our memories here. And it won’t be reversed.’” Having grown up in Britain following her family’s exile from Palestine, doctor, author and academic Ghada Karmi leaves her adoptive home in a quest to return to her homeland. She starts work with the Palestinian Authority and gets a firsthand understanding of its bizarre bureaucracy under Israel’s occupation. In her quest, she takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the heart of one of the world’s most intractable conflict zones and one of the major issues of our time. Visiting places she has not seen since childhood, her unique insights reveal a militarised and barely recognisable homeland, and her home in Jerusalem, like much of the West Bank, occupied by strangers. Her encounters with politicians, fellow Palestinians, and Israeli soldiers cause her to question what role exiles like her have in the future of their country and whether return is truly possible.
Return: A Palestinian Memoir, by Ghada Karmi- Amazon Sales Rank: #152910 in Books
- Brand: Karmi, Ghada
- Published on: 2015-05-19
- Released on: 2015-05-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.56" h x 1.17" w x 5.75" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 336 pages
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“A hauntingly written, remorselessly honest, and surely long lasting account of Palestinian loss and struggle.”—Donald MacIntyre, Independent “Eloquent and moving.” —David Shulman, New York Review of Books “This moving memoir takes us to the heart of a conflict that must be resolved if we are to have a peaceful and viable world; Karmi gives us a valuable insight into the impasse in which the Palestinian people find themselves and enables us to experience the anomaly of their situation.”—Karen Armstrong, author of Fields of Blood “Personal, warm and accessible, Return describes a life trajectory that captures the story of modern Palestine in a most unique and sensitive way. Beautifully written, it brings to the fore the human being behind the colonized, occupied and fragmented realities of present-day Israel and Palestine. It is an individual journey into the heart of the occupation’s darkness, where people, and not abstract ideas, are struggling with the impossibility of leading a normal life, or any life at all.”—Ilan Pappe, author of The Idea of Israel “Ghada Karmi is versatile, cosmopolitan and highly intelligent, and comes across as both self-absorbed and deeply committed to the struggle for Palestinian rights. In Search of Fatima was a beautifully written and moving narrative of her displacement from Jerusalem in 1948 set against the backdrop of the major political events that shaped the course of modern Palestinian history. Return is both a sequel and a stand-alone memoir. On display is the same fluent writing style, the psychological insight and the outstanding skill for mixing the personal with the political.” —Avi Shlaim, Guardian “A haunting account of a Palestinian’s sense of loss.” —Belfast Telegraph “Karmi’s strength is to focus on her personal story. Some of the best chapters in her book relate to her visit to Amman to see her centenarian father … She describes astutely how the Palestinians in Jordan have distanced themselves psychically from their brethren under Israeli occupation, as if their depredations had made Jordan’s Palestinians decide ‘they wanted no part of that misery’ … The sheer bloody-mindedness of Israeli bureaucracy, honed over the decades into a machine to humiliate and intimidate, runs like a thread through the book.” —New Statesman “Not just life writing but writing that is alive. With perfectly attuned fidelity to the experiences it narrates, it offers a deeply engaged and engaging meditation on what it means to stay together as a people. Revolving this question in ways both existentially Palestinian and universally human, it is a literary memoir to be placed alongside those of Mourid Barghouti and Mahmoud Darwish.”—Caroline Rooney, Professor of African and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Kent “[In Ghada Karmi’s Return], the reality of Palestinian life begins to come into focus. It is the reality of exile.” —Yasmine El Rashidi, Bookforum
About the Author Ghada Karmi was born in Jerusalem and trained as a doctor of medicine at Bristol University. She established the first British-Palestinian medical charity in 1972 and was an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs. Her previous books include Jerusalem Today: What Future for the Peace Process?, The Palestinian Exodus 1948-1998 (with Eugene Cotran), Married to Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine, and the best-selling In Search of Fatima. She writes frequently for the Guardian and the Nation.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. The end of a dream By R. M. Peterson Ghada Karmi is one of the many Palestinians who were expelled from Palestine in 1948. For a half century the dispossessed Palestinians dreamed of return. For many of them, that dream suddenly seemed attainable with the Oslo Accords of 1993 and 1995. But the Palestinians were outmaneuvered and outmuscled by Israel, and by today -- although Karmi does not explicitly say so in this book -- the dream has become a delusion.Karmi's family ended up in London. She became a physician and then an academic. She visited Palestine a few times as an adult, especially after her parents relocated to Amman, Jordan. In 2005, in her mid-sixties, she decided to return to do what she could to help the Palestinian cause, and she took a position as a consultant to the Ministry of Media and Communications within the Palestinian Authority.Most of RETURN is taken up with her account of her months as a consultant. She was based in Ramallah, but she travelled throughout the West Bank and made several trips to Jerusalem and one to Gaza.Two aspects of the book stand out. One is as an account of everyday life in the West Bank (and, to a lesser extent, Gaza). That life is dominated by the Separation Wall, innumerable checkpoints that lead to delay as a way of life, illegal land grabs, slights and slurs at every turn, and autocratic and bureaucratic frustration of travel and commerce at every level. It is Apartheid, and in terms of political and social rights the Palestinians have become the Jews of the second half of the twentieth century, now extending well into the twenty-first.The second and perhaps more significant aspect of the book is its account of the irrelevance of the Palestinian Authority and the end of the dream of return. In short, the Palestinian Authority has been co-opted, and its leaders are more dedicated to perpetuating their existence within the status quo than they are to effectuating true freedom and autonomy for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. NGOs proliferate in the West Bank, but they have become a drug: those who make a living from NGO-funded work are not about to do anything or undertake any program that will jeopardize next year's funding. Moderate Palestinians are, on the whole, inconstant and feckless. As far-fetched as the aspirations for freedom and autonomy may be, there is even less reason -- in truth, no reason -- to believe that the descendants of the Nakba will return to Palestine via any means short of cataclysmic violence.For those who are not particularly knowledgeable about the Palestinian quagmire, Karmi provides, in non-pedantic fashion, sufficient historical background, going back to the 1930s. Most supporters of Zionist Israel probably would quarrel with her history, but I find it relatively objective in its portrayal of the relationship between Israelis and native Palestinians. True, she does not address the larger conflict between Israel and Arabs (and Moslems) of the Middle East, and the broader Islamic threat certainly has influenced the way Israel has dealt with the Palestinian dream of return.For a book by someone so passionate in her politics, RETURN is, on the whole, written in a surprisingly equable manner, never becoming shrill. She is not driven in the least by Islamism. She is thoughtful and, ultimately, pragmatic. Most of the time I felt she was on the mark, or close to it, although on a few occasions I found her a little muddle-headed (perhaps I didn't understand her point). The book is a tad over-written (it could have profited from a strong edit), but in general it is well-written; it certainly is easy enough to read. One final cavil: there is too much of Karmi's personal life. To be sure, RETURN is sub-titled "A Palestinian Memoir", but that memoir should have been confined to Karmi's personal experiences upon returning to Palestine; to expand it to her failed marriages and relationships from many years ago was a distraction.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Four Stars By Tatiana Pettinato An insightful account of the reality of life in Palestine today
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