TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mahmoud,Olfat
AU  - Cooper,Dani
AU  - McCue,Helen
TI  - Tears for Tarshiha
SN  - 9780987381347
AV  - CT1919.P38 M34 2018eb
U1  - 956.9405092 22
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Melbourne, Victoria
PB  - Wild Dingo Press
KW  - Mahmoud, Olfat,
KW  - Mahmoud, Olfat.
KW  - Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
KW  - Refugees
KW  - Political refugees
KW  - Palestine
KW  - Biography
KW  - Refugees, Palestinian Arab
KW  - Internally displaced persons
KW  - Refugee camps
KW  - Israel
KW  - Tarshīḥā
KW  - Nurses
KW  - Réfugiés palestiniens
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Guerre israélo-arabe, 1948-1949
KW  - Réfugiés
KW  - Personnes déplacées dans leur pays
KW  - Infirmières
KW  - Israël
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Middle East
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Tarshīḥā (Israel)
KW  - History
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - A Palestinian refugee's inspiring tale of her lifelong fight to return home. Olfat Mahmoud is a Palestinian refugee - a descendant of the Christian and Muslim people who fled Palestine in the period leading up to and after the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. She is an accomplished woman in her own right: the director of an international NGO, an internationally recognised peace activist, a registered nurse and, most recently, the recipient of a doctorate. Born in a refugee camp in Lebanon more than 60 years ago, Olfat's determination to help her people in their fight to return to their homeland led to a nursing career that has placed her at the front line of atrocious massacres and wars in the Middle East. Tears for Tarshiha follows Olfat's career amid the death and destruction of Lebanon's many conflicts, and chronicles the Palestinian people's remarkable capacity for love and bravery in the most extreme conditions. Olfat's extraordinary story is emblematic of the Palestinian plight, illustrating their continued survival and determination that has become an inconvenience to the international community. These are the descendants of those Palestinians who were forced from their homeland at gunpoint by the Israeli military in 1948 in what is known as the Nakba - or Catastrophe. In 1949, David Ben-Gurion, one of the founders and the first prime minister of Israel, stated that 'we must do everything to ensure [the Palestinians] never do return ... the old will die and the young will forget'. Despite Olfat's parents and grandparents never seeing Tarshiha again, this book is part of Olfat's ongoing campaign to keep her people's predicament in the public consciousness
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