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Author Mahmoud, Olfat, 1960- author.

Title Tears for Tarshiha / Olfat Mahmoud with Dani Cooper and Helen McCue
Published Melbourne, Victoria : Wild Dingo Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (193 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, portraits
Summary 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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Subject Mahmoud, Olfat, 1960-
Mahmoud, Olfat
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 -- Refugees
Political refugees -- Palestine -- Biography
Refugees, Palestinian Arab -- Biography
Internally displaced persons -- Palestine -- Biography
Refugee camps -- Israel -- Tarshīḥā
Nurses -- Israel -- Biography
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 -- Refugees -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Internally displaced persons
Nurses
Political refugees
Refugee camps
Refugees
Refugees, Palestinian Arab
Tarshīḥā (Israel) -- History
Israel
Middle East -- Palestine
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Cooper, Dani, author
McCue, Helen, 1949- author
ISBN 9780987381347
0987381342