Son Of Hamas

Mosab Hassan Yousef: Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices, Wheaton Illinois Saltriver Books 2010 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 9781414333076
9781414333076 Fine

A real nice clean unmarked 265 page first edition hardcover with "1" present in number sequence. Describes the author's experiences as the son of one of the founders of Hamas, how he assisted his father in an important role in the organization, and how he came to renounce violence and Hamas and become a Christian. First Edition Fine Hard Cover 9 1/2 h x 6 1/2w; First Edition

[SW: War Terror Hamas Kill]

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Wilentz, Amy: MARTYRS' CROSSING, New York Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group 2001
0-684-85436-8 New Condition

Discover Great New Writers - A deeply felt first novel by an award-winning journalist, Martyrs' Crossing takes readers behind the headlines of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and exposes the complex, passionate, and painful lives of the people who live in this region. The story begins as Marina, the American-born wife of a jailed Palestinian activist, is detained while trying to cross into Jerusalem to get emergency help for her sick child. When the baby dies at the crossing, Ari, the Israeli officer who refused to let them through, is devastated. An international crisis ensues -- with Palestinians rioting and Israelis turning to their ace security chief to put the best "spin" on the situation. But it is Ari and Marina who must each break free of the political ramifications and come to terms with their private grief and guilt. The characters in this tense page-turner are richly drawn. In addition to Marina and Ari, there is George, Marina's father, a world-renowned cardiologist with memories of his own expulsion from his home by the Israelis in 1948; Hassan, Marina's husband, a tender man with ties to a terrorist group; Yizhar, the Israeli security chief, who thrives on control; and Ahmed, an opportunistic Palestinian leader, who regards the dead child as a powerful political tool. A former Jerusalem correspondent for The New Yorker, Amy Wilentz thrusts the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a personal, more painful, light, and proves herself an adept novelist in the process. (Spring 2001 Selection) From the Publisher "One rainy night at a Jerusalem checkpoint, Israeli Lieutenant Ari Doron is ordered to refuse passage to a young Palestinian mother and her sick boy. The incident leads to a series of riots, and Doron finds himself pulled into the bitter political aftermath as battles and bus bombs explode around him." "He is drawn to Marina, the boy's American-born mother. And though she is on the other side of the bloody struggle, she finds herself thinking of Doron as "her soldier." In another place, at another time, they might have been lovers, but here their story moves toward a tragic conclusion with the kind of inevitability that war imposes." "Marina's father, an eminent Boston heart specialist and an outspoken Palestinian intellectual, is also sucked into the conflict he thought he had left behind long ago. Now, back in the streets of his youth, he must choose whether to support his old comrades as they manipulate his grandson's story in an ugly propaganda campaign, or break with them and wreck his last remaining childhood friendship." "Caught in history's terrible catastrophe, all three become pawns for larger, inescapable forces."--BOOK JACKET. Publishers Weekly A former Jerusalem correspondent for the New Yorker and 1990 National Book Critics Circle nonfiction nominee, Wilentz supplements a natural storyteller's eye for character with a reporter's grasp of swirling political detail in this complex, haunting debut novel. At a checkpoint in Jerusalem, a beautiful young Palestinian woman begs an Israeli soldier for permission to "cross over" in order to get her two-year-old son to the hospital. The soldier, Lt. Ari Doron, frantically telephones headquarters, but is rebuffed by an anonymous commander: the woman is Marina Raad Hajimi, wife of jailed Hamas terrorist Hassan Hajimi, and therefore presumptively barred from Israel during a border "closure." Within minutes, the child dies, devastating family members on both sides of the checkpoint. It turns out the little boy was the grandson of American cardiologist George Raad, a secular Palestinian patriot whose iconoclastic views are courted, but largely ignored, by the Palestinian leadership. Despite his failing health, George returns to Ramallah to be with his bereaved daughter and to shelter her from the gathering political storm, as Palestinian discontents gear up to play "Find the Soldier." The soldier, meanwhile, plagued with guilt over "his dead baby," is unable to stay out of Ramallah, where he seeks absolution from Marina an Hardcover 6- 1/2 x 9-1/2"

[SW: Palestinian Americans -- Fiction, Fathers and daughters -- Fiction, Americans -- Israel -- Fiction, Children -- Death -- Fiction, Mothers and sons -- Fiction, Jerusalem -- Fiction, Soldiers - Political Fiction, Israel, Anthology, romance, Activist]

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Appleby, R. Scott: SPOKESMEN FOR THE DESPISED, Chicago University of Chicago Press 1996
ISBN: 0-226-02125-4 As New Condition

From the Publisher Behind the bloody acts of terrorism, the mobs chanting with upraised fists, the backroom and front-page politics in the Middle East, stand powerful religious leaders cloaked in mystery and fanaticism. Spokesmen for the Despised lifts the veils, presenting eight vivid portraits of fundamentalist leaders who have turned their charismatic religious authority to powerful political ends. The deeds of the men profiled in this book make history and headlines, whether through the anti-American rhetoric of the late Iranian revolutionary, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini; the violent acts of Hizbullah, the Lebanese Shi'ite movement headed by Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah; or the group of Jewish rabbis who appear to have inspired the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. No one better exemplifies this history-making than Shaykh Ahmad Yasin, the spiritual leader of Hamas, who from his Israeli jail cell continues to influence Hamas's efforts to eliminate both Israel and the PLO. Also featured are the spiritual guides of the radical Jewish settler movement Gush Emunim, the Sudanese sponsor of "the Islamic Awakening," the preacher who inflamed Upper Egypt, and the ideological leader of the Zionist International Christian Embassy. These riveting biographies include interviews with true believers and bitter opponents, and in several cases with the subjects themselves, carefully placing the lives of these charismatic leaders in the contexts of their religious traditions and their varied social, political, and religious settings. Spokesmen for the Despised is an essential volume for anyone wishing to understand the relationship between religion and politics in the Middle East. Contributors: Ziad Abu Amr, Gideon Aran, Yaakov Ariel, Daniel Brumberg, Patrick D. Gaffney, Samuel Heilman, Martin Kramer, and Judith Miller Library Journal Appleby's (coeditor, Being Right, Indiana Univ., 1995) collection of essays, produced under the sponsorship of the Fundamentalist Project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, focuses on religious orthodox movements in the Middle East. Some of the selections from scholars exploring well-known and less-popular Islamic movements include Daniel Brumberg's "Khomeini's Legacy: Islamic Rule and Islamic Social Justice" and Ziad Abu-Amr's "Shaykh Ahmad Yasin and the Origins of Hamas." Gideon Aran's "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Land" covers the Jewish component of Gush Emunim (the Bloc of the Faithful), while Samuel C. Heilman's "Guides of the Faithful" discusses the current extreme right wing and the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin. Yaakov Ariel rounds out the Christian element with "A Christian Fundamentalist Vision of the Middle East." A major conclusion is that religious fundamentalism has become an increasingly important geopolitical factor. This is a fine contribution to the comparative study of religion and necessary to understanding the relationship of religion to politics in the region.Sanford R. Silverburg, Catawba Coll., Salisbury, N.C. Stovall, Tyler. Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light. Houghton. Dec. 1996. c.347p. photogs. bibliog. index. LC 96-24566. ISBN 0-395-68399-8.24.95. In this significant social and cultural ory, Stovall (The Rise of the Paris Red Belt, Univ. of California, 1990) takes on jazz, literature, and interracial relations in Montmartre and Montparnasse from 1918 to the present. Highlighting a detailed and balanced account of African Americans in Paris are the triumphs and tenacity of Josephine Baker; the careers and failed friendship of Richard Wright and James Baldwin; and the lives of Sidney Bechet and other jazz greats. Such personal accounts stand out from a more general story of how African Americans found respect, affection, and equality accorded to them by French people, who often preferred them to white Americans or African blacks. Stovall explores in this context French tastes for exoticism and interracial relationships. Stovall's work is substantive enough for scholars and vivid enough for the general Paperback 6 x 9"

[SW: Religious fundamentalism -- Middle East, Middle East -- Religion -- 20th century, Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979-]

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Vanity Fair Magazine, April 2008, USA Conde Nast 2008 ; weicher Einband / soft cover; 1. Ed.
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254 pages. Features: Who Says Women Aren't Funny?; Gaza Bombshell - White House plan for coup against democratically elected Hamas government backfires disastrously; Olga Kurylenko; Is Jack Worthington JFK's illigitimate son?; Relationships of Joni Mitchell, Carole King and Carly Simon in the early 70s; 2007 Windfall Report; Calvin Klein's transition to life after the sale of his company in 2003; John Malone vs. Barry Diller; Beijing's Olympic Makeover; The Three Trillion Dollar Iraq War; Brian McNally moves to Saigon; John Krasinski; James Bennett on the early paparazzi. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. First Edition Soft Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; First Edition

[SW: Vanity Fair April 2008]

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