The West Bank

Since his participation in the Israeli military’s eviction of the Palestinians, the narrator has been haunted by what was done, and these feelings of guilt prompt him to tell his story. His experience as a soldier so impacted him that it has molded his very existence as a Zionist, causing him to wonder about and question the motives behind his actions. At first he tried to shrug off his own role in the violence, thinking that he was just following orders and doing what he had to do. But then he (and through this the reader)

Joyce’s “Araby” and Bambara’s “Lesson” pose surprising similarities to each other. Despite the narrators’ strikingly clear differences, such as time period, ethnicity, social class, and gender the characters have important similarities. Both narrators are at crucial developmental stages in their lives, are faced with severe adversities, and have a point of clarity that affects their future.

‘Wild Thorns’ by Sahar Khalifeh is an insightful commentary that brings to life the Palestinian struggle under the Israeli Occupation and embodies this conflict through the different perspectives brought forth by the contrasting characters. We are primarily shown this strife through the eyes of the principal character, the expatriate Usama, as well as the foil character of his cousin, Adil. Khalifeh skillfully uses literary devices such as emotive language, allusions and positive and negative connotations to highlight life under the Occupation. As the audience, these techniques help encourage us to consider the struggle more in depth, and due to the wide variety of characters, invite us to relate to them.

In addition, I will examine the current state of political and human rights in Israeli occupied West Bank and analyze how they are approaching a level of apartheid. Finally, I will summarize the effects of these social tensions between Israel and Palestinians in the terms of how potential open conflict could reignite.

Arab and Jew Wounded Spirits in a Promise Land by David Shipler gives an in-depth looked in his time and experience in the Middle East. He is able to show how both Arabs and Jews have found themselves in the midst of an ongoing battle for power and control over land. They both found themselves, not being to live among one another. During this time in the 1980s some were trying to find peace during a time of hardship and gloom, but many were still caught in the normal life many lived filled with hatred towards one another.

The book starts out with the war of independence in the town of Latrun with the Haganah 7th brigade. The battle of Latrun was a battle that took place in beginning phases of the war. This battle was a failure to the Haganah 7th brigade, which was newer formed unit. The main road between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem which was commanded by the Latrun fortress. Arab forces were trying to take over the fortress and deny jews from entering into Jerusalem. This particular battle and the events depicted around and about the battle in the book are events and occurrences of actual history but it is a simplified version of the events, of course. But the things that are not actual or real things in history are the characters. Sam Pasternak is the fictional character used to illustrate the tasks of Colonel Chaim Herzog which was a Israeli army officer who became an army general, later a popular historian of the military, and then took on Israel’s envoy to the UN, he even took on two terms as President of Israel. The story of “Burma Road” in the book, like the battle of Latrun, is simplified. All though, in the

They are all in shock about Nujoods story. Mohammad then tells Nujood that to his knowledge and throughout his career he has never seen a young girl show up to the court house looking for a divorce until now. It all came back to the cultures and family honor. Abdel Wahed decides to take Nujood in as a guest into his home with his family so she does not have to go back to her abusive husband. The family takes her in and treats her like she’s their own child. She’s amazed at the luxury they are living but it still unsettles her to sleep because she’s scared she’ll be ripped from her sleep and taken back to her husband.

This shows how women are not able to do the things they used to they only have their memories. They had no privacy, intimacy with the commanders was only to get pregnant; the wives of the commanders had to be there every time. As the book continues, readers learn about the different types of punishments women suffer in this

This book does not only open your eye to life in the Middle East but, has a lot of major conflicts. The one that we are never allowed to forget is the time when Amir did not save Hassan from being raped by Assef. The rest of Amir’s life he lives with the guilt of that moment of his childhood. Amir learns redemption does not always come in the way one would hope. There was

Society is often responsible for forging one’s beliefs. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is a criticism on the hardships and challenges, found in a patriarchal society, caused by society itself and those empowered through social conditions. Hosseini expresses his beliefs through the relationships between the characters, plot development, and contrast. First, both main characters go through enormous amounts of pain and suffering.

The King permitted the storytelling not knowing this story was to have no end, with every new sign of the sun rising, the story would end on a cliffhanger, forcing the king to not kill Shahrazad in order to hear the “ending” of the story; this continuing on for a thousand and one nights. The ability of the two women to out wit the king not only saved their lives, but also saved thousands of women who would be forced to bed with the King and killed the following morning. This literary work highlights women’s newfound capabilities through knowledge and their mental and physical power over

Unlike the other two women, Shahrazad, the vizier's daughter, used her womanly powers to save instead of destroy or deceive. Even though her life was at stake, she put herself in the position to be the heroine for the kingdom.

Suad Amiry’s Sharon and My Mother-In-Law: Ramallah Diaries tells the story of every Palestinian's struggle under Israeli occupation. The sense of humor in Amiry’s memoir is what makes it a unique book. She writes about the altercations with Israeli soldiers, the fear and panic that come from being under constant violence, surveillance and curfews, living in a land where it is easier to obtain a legal ID card for your dog than it is for you to obtain one for yourself, and life in general. Amiry uses comicality to lighten what are often very heavy scenes, but still manages to convey their seriousness (143). The combination of frankness, humor, and pain all contribute to attracting attention to matters important to the Palestinians and the difficult

The novel, Persepolis, tells the tale of young Marjane Satrapi, who is a young girl growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In my essay I will examine how the author, Marjane Satrapi, tells her own story of growing up during the Islamic revolution through pictures.Satrapi uses pictures to depict her life as she matures first through her childhood, then through her teenager years into becoming an adult, and finally shows how she lives out her adult life and when she tries to eventually come home. She does this in a comic book format, which there are believed to be a few reasons why she had done this. Some believe she has done this in order to provide a somewhat “comic relief” to the

Mas-ha is a small village, probably the size of the Consumes River College campus; however, the meaning to me is greater than the whole state of California. Mas-ha is special to me because it is my hometown. Mas-ha is located within the disputed side of the West Bank in Palestine. Its population is about one thousand two hundred people. In the whole village there are two major families. The size of Mas-ha is approximately two square miles. This village is very prized to me, because of its distinctions such as the religion, the location, the culture and family.