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Author Bird, Kai.

Title Crossing Mandelbaum Gate : coming of age between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 / Kai Bird.

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2010.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  956.94 BIRD    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B BIRD    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  814.54 BIRD    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  B BIRD    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  956.9442 BI    Check Shelf
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description xvii, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Arabs. Jerusalem ; On the road to Suez ; The magic kingdom ; Arabia: "progress without change" -- Defeating Arab modernity. Cario and Nasser's Egypt, 1965-1967 ; "A man without a country," 1967-1970 ; Black September, 1970 -- Jews, Israelis and the Shoah. The night of broken glass ; The Hebrew republic.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-405) and index.
Summary Pulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.
Subject Bird, Kai -- Childhood and youth.
Bird, Kai -- Family.
American Colony (Jerusalem) -- Biography.
Jerusalem -- Biography.
Dhahran (Saudi Arabia) -- Biography.
Arab-Israeli conflict -- Personal narratives, American.
Jewish-Arab relations -- History -- 20th century.
Consuls -- Family relationships -- Jerusalem.
Consuls -- Family relationships -- Saudi Arabia -- Dhahran.
Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1945-1979.
ISBN 9781416544401 hardcover
1416544402 hardcover
9781416544418 paperback
1416544410 paperback
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