| Description |
xxiii, 214 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Saint Yasin -- Welcome to planet -- Look with your ears, my friend -- Lunch with Hasan -- A complete darkness -- The disciple (Hahaha) -- A minor jihad -- The gharqad tree -- The evil incident -- The brotherhood -- Splits in the brain -- The miracle sheikh -- The mechanical waving hand of a keffiyah-clad manikin -- Soldier in Chinese hat planning escape -- The sweet girl -- The antidote -- A babe in the womb -- The second coming -- The crazy girl -- The dark room -- Walls, maze, prison -- An entire cosmology -- A question of style -- It doesn't matter when or how I am killed -- Martyr on a black horse -- Terror in their hearts -- We are worth nothing without a machine-gun -- Children, but they are men and heroes -- Al-Aqsa massacre video -- Blood, blood, blood -- A collaborator breaker accused of something close to collaboration -- A daring shock of jet-black hair coyly peeking out beneath her veil -- Monkeys and pigs and servants of evil -- The mad dogs of language -- A notice of the end of the world -- A |
| Summary |
This memoir chronicles two interlocking, often clashing hourneys - an exploration of the cult of martyrdom in the underground media of the intifada, one the one hand, and on the other, the struggle for friendship across seemingly impossible divides |
| Analysis |
Anecdotes |
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Biography |
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Intifada |
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Israel-Palestine conflict |
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Overseas item |
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Palestinians |
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Suicide bombings |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references : pages [191]-198 |
| Subject |
Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmīyah.
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Suicide bombers -- Gaza Strip.
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Suicide bombers -- West Bank.
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Terrorism -- Gaza Strip.
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Terrorism -- West Bank.
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| Author |
Steinberg, Paul F.
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| LC no. |
2004008861 |
| ISBN |
0195116003 |
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0195305590 (paperback) |
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