My Jerusalem: Essays, Reminiscences, and Poems

by Salma Khadra Jayyusi

Book Overview

Here is a passionate and eclectic collection of essays, poems, and scholarship that brings to life Jerusalem, that most enigmatic and compelling of cities, in its embattled, contemporary guise as well as in its ancient history. The book begins in the immediacy of today's Jerusalem--with its dispossessions and laws, its bloody conflicts and massive skyscrapers--and moves backward in time to Classical Jerusalem, working to disentangle the knots of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566565499
• ISBN13: 9781566565493
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Olive Branch Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"