Although Sari Nusseibeh first met the distinguished Israeli novelist Amos Oz in 1978, it was not until he read Oz’s autobiography in 2004 that he realized they had been boyhood neighbors in a divided Jerusalem. “I was raised no more than a hundred feet away from where Oz lived out his childhood, just on the other side of the fortified ‘No Man’s Land’ (...)
October 12, 2007
Books
Philosopher & Statesman
Once Upon a CountryA Palestinian LifeSari Nusseibeh, with Anthony DavidFarrar, Straus and Giroux, $27.50, 560 pp.
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