Ibtisam barakat biography of donald

  • This memoir may qualify as non fiction, but the majority of this 176 page book is told from the perspective of the author when she was three years old.
  • A Palestinian writer discusses her new book and her attempts to humanize the plight of people living in the occupied territories for Western readers.
  • I am from Jerusalem and grew up in Ramallah under Israeli military occupation.

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    Ibtisam Barakat

    For Palestinian-American author and poet Ibtisam Barakat, writing is not just a pursuit — it is almost a fever. "I don't think I can think without writing," she said, scratching her pen in a small notebook even as she spoke. She writes "every minute, every hour." Writing her thoughts, she said, brings her to her real self and makes those thoughts truly her own.

    Barakat grew up in the West Bank under periods of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her first visit to the United States was as an intern for the magazine The Nation, and she eventually earned two master's degrees — in journalism and human development — from the University of Missouri. Her 2007 young adult memoir, "Tasting the Sky," propelled her to national recognition. In the novel, she recalls her family's escape to Jordan in wartime, their eventual return to Ramallah and the events that unfolded during the family's stay in Barakat's favorite childhood home. Stealing sweet pastries from a vendor's cart, running shoeless from gunfire, adopting the family goat as a pet, spying on Israeli soldiers with her brothers, making friends with the Arabic letter Alef, whom she believed lived in pieces of chalk — all of these are described in a winsome, honest childhood voice.

    Barakat had to let other voices insi

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    Parallel Story #10

    I am from Jerusalem and grew up in Ramallah under Israeli military occupation. As a Palestinian I was forced to live as an immigrant/refugee in my own homeland. One dies a thousand times a day living as a slave to people with guns and also to those in the sexist patriarchy.

    So I immigrated to the USA at the age of 22. I went alone, but had with me a great desire to succeed as a female and as a Palestinian Arab. I love my identities not because they set me apart from others who don’t belong to them, but because they point to the diverse, multiple expressions of humanity’s genius to produce endless cultures.

    My memoir “Tasting the Sky, a Palestinian Childhood” won many awards and is being read and taught in many countries and languages across the world. My most recent book in Arabic “The Lilac Girl” (الفتاة الليلكية) just won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for creativity in writing for young readers.

    Emigrating gave me my right to move, to find myself, and to help in humanity’s quest for voice for all.

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