Ghada karmi biography books
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Ghada Karmi
Palestinian academic
Ghada Karmi (Arabic: غادة كرمي, romanized:&#;Ghādah Karmi; born ) is a Palestinian-born academic, physician and author. She has written on Palestinian issues in newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Nation and Journal of Palestine Studies.
Early life and education
[edit]Karmi was born in Jerusalem to a Muslim family. Her father, Hasan Sa'id Karmi was Palestinian while her mother was Syrian;[1] she was the youngest child with an older brother and sister.[2] In her autobiography, In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story, she describes growing up in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Katamon, with its mixture of Palestinian Christians and Muslims. Among the family friends and neighbors was poet Khalil al-Sakakini and his family. Her family fled Jerusalem for Damascus, Syria, in April ; she said their villa was taken by Israel.[3] The family eventually settled in Golders Green, in London,
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One State
'An smart eller klok, sensitive writer' - Financial Times
Palestine has been beneath attack for three quarters of a century. The 'peace process' that has favoured the two-state solution for more than forty years has now been internationally exposed as masking the expansion of Israel's apartheid regime. 75 years ago, Ghada Karmi and her family in Jerusalem were among the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were exiled during the Nakba. She has since become one of the most vocal proponents of the single democratic state in Palestine-Israel.
In this book, Karmi powerfully argues that this is the best possible settlement for the Palestinians, including the refugees; imagining a single secular state in historic Palestine, all of whose inhabitants would enjoy the same rights.
Uniting the nation - from the Mediterranean Sea to the River Jordan - and allowing the Palestinian right of return fryst vatten the only way to end the exclusive and antidemocratic character of the Israeli state.
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In Search of Fatima:A Palestinian Story
by Ghada Karmi
An intimate memoir of the Nakba, exile and the dispossession of Palestinian lands
Born in Jerusalem, Ghada Karmi and her family were forced out of their home in They shared the fate of the thousands of Palestinians who, in the Nakba, were dispossessed and driven from land lived on for generations. In this moving memoir, Karmi charts their journey from Jerusalem to Golders Green, in north London, and their struggle to put down roots in alien soil. A quest for identity haunts her search for security far from home. Speaking for the vast number of people displaced worldwide, her story is a powerful exploration of the psychological pain of exile.
Reviews
Ghada Karmi’s stunning memoir is remarkable. Extraordinarily well-written, it is the amazingly honest story of a Palestinian woman of exceptional self-awareness. Hers is a story of exile and displacement rich in detail and human experience. Karmi is excellent on t