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In an old garden in the town arabs call alramla and jews ramla neither name to be confused with the west bank town of ramallah, 20 miles away, a family cultivated a lemon tree that provided shade and refreshment for many years. In an old garden in the town arabs call alramla and jews ramla neither name to be confused with the west bank town of ramallah, 20 miles away, a family cultivated a lemon tree. In 1967, bashir alkhayri, a palestinian twentyfiveyearold, journeyed to israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind. The lemon tree tells mideast history via friendship.
Tolan uses the lemon tree and the specific focus on one palestinian and one israeli to open up the entire history, but the focus allows us to read it almost as a novel. An arab, a jew, and the heart of the middle east by sandy tolan overview in 1967, bashir khairi, a twentyfiveyearold palestinian, journeyed to israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. The affecting story of an unlikely truce, even a peace, between palestinians and israelis in contested territory. An arab, a jew, and the heart of the middle east ebook. The lemon tree and millions of other books are available for instant access. An arab, a jew, and the heart of the middle east kindle edition by tolan, sandy. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the lemon tree. It was the true story of one house, two families, and a common history emanating from walls of jerusalem stone on the coastal plain east of tel aviv and jaffa. The lemon tree study guide contains a biography of sandy tolan, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. In the lemon tree his father planted in the backyard of his childhood home, bashir sees a symbol of occupation.
With this audiobook, he pursues the story into the homes and histories of the two families at its center, and. One of tolans most moving passages chronicles dalia 20mile trip to ramallah to visit bashir. The lemon tree by sandy tolan whole planet foundation. Apr 17, 2007 the two families ultimately meet and the house and land and the lemon tree become the focus of their debates on the necessities and injustices of the current situation. There were 11 people on the conference call last sunday for an active discussion of the first half of the book. The lemon tree grew out of a fortythree minute radio documentary that sandy tolan produced for fresh air. In the book the lemon treeby sandy tolan, which parts of the. Newspapers, politics, history books, told me one side of the story.
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