Mapping My Return by Salman Abu Sitta - 9789774168338

Mapping My ReturnA Palestinian Memoir\nAuthor(s): Salman Abu Sitta\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The American University in Cairo Press, Egypt\nImprint: The American University in Cairo Press\nISBN-13: 9789774168338, 978-9774168338\nSynopsis\nSalman Abu Sitta, who has single-handedly made available crucial mapping work on Palestine, was just ten years old when he left his home near Beersheba in 1948, but as for many Palestinians of his generation, the profound effects of that traumatic loss would form the defining feature of his life from that moment on. In this rich and moving memoir, Abu Sitta draws on oral histories and personal recollections to vividly evoke the vanished world of his family and home from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the British withdrawal from Palestine and subsequent war. Alongside accounts of an idyllic childhood spent on his familys farm estate Abu Sitta gives a personal and very human face to the dramatic events of 1930s and 1940s Palestine, con.