Palestine: A Guide

Mariam Shahin, Inea Bushnaq

Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated, 2005 - History - 500 pages

Palestine: A Traveller's Guide is an insider's look at where, and how, Palestinians live today. This remarkable tour through the historic Palestinian homeland is guided by some of the country's most gifted writers, journalists, academics and photographers. Intimate and honest, this guidebook offers an insider's key to understanding the Palestinians and their relationship to their homeland, past and present Explore the monuments of the past, as well as the vibrant towns, cities, hamlets and refugee camps of an emerging nation. Palestine: A Traveller's Guide offers the visitor an authentic vision of why, despite lacking legal status as a state, Palestine is a real place on the world map.

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This is truly a guidebook, a resource for readers seeking information about the cultural, social, and geographic character of Palestine, a region with a long history but no current political existence ...

Contents

• GEOGRAPHY FLORA AND FAUNA: 33
• LITERATURE AND MUSIC: 41
• CULINARY TRADITIONS: 61

About the author

Mariam Shahin, journalist and author whose work frequently appears on special news programs for ABC News, ZDF and the BBC. George Azar is the subject of the Emmy Award winning CBS television feature Beirut Photographer and the photographer/author of the critically acclaimed book Palestine: A Photographic Journey.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Palestine: A Guide
• Authors: Mariam Shahin, Inea Bushnaq
• Editor: Mariam Shahin
• Photographs by: George Azar
• Illustrated by: George Azar
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated, 2005
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jan 8, 2010
• ISBN: 156656557X, 9781566565578
• Length: 500 pages
• Subjects: History / Middle East / General; Travel / Middle East / General; Travel / Middle East / Israel