Ebook: It's easier to reach heaven than the end of the street: a Jerusalem memoir
Author: Williams Emma
- Tags: Al-Aqsa Intifada 2000-, Americans, Americans--Jerusalem, Arab-Israeli conflict, Arab-Israeli conflict--1993-, Arab-Israeli conflict--1993---Social aspects, Arab-Israeli conflict--Social aspects, Social conditions, Women physicians, Women physicians--Jerusalem, Biography, Biographies, Williams Emma, Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993-, Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993- -- Social aspects, Americans -- Jerusalem -- Biography, Women physicians -- Jerusalem -- Biography, Jerusalem -- Biography, Jerusalem -- Social conditio
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Olive Branch Press
- City: Israel;Tel Aviv;Jerusalem;Middle East;Northampton;Mass;Tel Aviv (Israel
- Edition: 1st American ed
- Language: English
- epub
A deeply affecting memoir and a unique contribution to our understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
In August 2000 Emma Williams arrived with her three small children in Jerusalem to join her husband and to work as a doctor. A month later, the second Palestinian intifada erupted. For the next three years, she was to witness an astonishing series of events in which hundreds of thousands of lives, including her own, were turned upside down.
Williams lived on the very border of East and West Jerusalem, working with Palestinians in Ramallah during the day and spending evenings with Israelis in Tel Aviv. Weaving personal stories and conversations with friends and colleagues into the long and fraught political background, Williams' powerful memoir brings to life the realities of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. She vividly recalls giving birth to her fourth child during the siege of Bethlehem and her horror when a suicide bomber blew his own head into the schoolyard...