A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter's Journey from Refugee Camp to the Arab Spring - Hardcover

Ayed, Nahlah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670069094 ISBN 13: 9780670069095

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2012

Synopsis

 

 

In 1976, Nahlah Ayed’s family gave up their comfortable life in Winnipeg for the squalor of a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan. The transition was jarring, but it was from this uncomfortable situation that Ayed first observed the people whose heritage she shared. The family returned to Canada when she was thirteen, and Ayed ignored the Middle East for many years. But the First Gulf War and the events of 9/11 reignited her interest. Soon she was reporting from the region full-time, trying to make sense of the wars and upheavals that have affected its people and sent so many of them seeking a better life elsewhere.

In A Thousand Farewells, Ayed describes with sympathy and insight the myriad ways in which the Arab people have fought against oppression and loss as seen from her own early days witnessing protests in Amman, and the wars, crackdowns, and uprisings she has reported on in countries across the region.

This is the heartfelt and personal chronicle of a journalist who has devoted much of her career to covering one of the world’s most vexing regions.

About this title

About the Author:

Nahlah Ayed was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba , is of Palestinian descent, and is fluent in both Arabic and English. She joined the CBC in 2002 and is currently a CBC correspondent, stationed in Libya .

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0670069094
• ISBN 13: 9780670069095
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 356