ISBN:
9780330388191
,
0330388193
,
9780330488204
,
0330488201
,
9780330488181
,
033048818X
Language:
English
Pages:
316 Seiten
Edition:
First published in Great Britain
Year of publication:
2007
DDC:
956.94054092
Keywords:
Goldberg, Jeffrey
;
Hijazi, Rafiq
;
Jewish journalists Biography
;
Palestinian Arabs Biography
;
Arab-Israeli conflict
;
Middle East Ethnic relations
Abstract:
They met in 1990 during the first Palestinian uprising - one an American Jew who served as a guard in the largest prison in Israel, the other his prisoner Rafiq, a rising leader in the PLO. Despite their fears and prejudices, they began a dialogue there that grew into a remarkable friendship - and now a remarkable book. It is a book that confronts head-on the issues dividing the Middle East, but one that also shines a ray of hope on that dark, embattled region. Jeffrey Goldberg, now an award-winning correspondent for The New Yorker, moved to Israel while still a college student. When he arrived, there was already a war in his heart - a war between the magnetic pull of tribe and the equally determined pull of the universalist ideal. He saw the conflict between the Jews and Arabs as the essence of tragedy, because tragedy is born not in the collision of fight and wrong, but of right and right. Prisoners is an account of life in that harsh desert prison - mean, overcrowded, and violent - and of Goldberg's extraordinary dialogue with Rafiq, which continues to this day
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