{"id":3548,"date":"2020-05-03T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-02-26T17:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T15:20:24","slug":"book-review-educated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2020\/05\/book-review-educated\/","title":{"rendered":"From Mormon Idaho, Through Youngstown, to Everyone in Palestine and Israel [Book Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Book review of Educated: A Memoir<\/em> by Tara Westover<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL & BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara\u2019s older brothers became violent.

When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she\u2019d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.<\/p> From the Publisher’s Description<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

How does a book become a bestseller? This question has intrigued me for as long as I can remember, coming in second to the question that tops my list, How is it that some people and communities simply can\u2019t see that their understanding of the world is just seriously flawed? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without a doubt, reading Educated: A Memoir<\/em> by Tara Westover significantly advanced the answers to both questions. Gently placed within every chapter of this memoir are deep life learnings, ones that emerge from Idaho, but relate to my upbringing in Youngstown, Ohio and current residence in Occupied Palestine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Sam’s full review<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

On Medium<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara\u2019s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she\u2019d traveled too far, if there was still a way home. (Publisher’s Description)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":30,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[948,942],"tags":[1255,1247,1248,1253,1249,126,1259,1244,55,1258,1252,1250,894,267,1245,1257,527,1254,1246,1251,1256,268,242,1260,1173],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-sams-writings","tag-ashkenazi","tag-brigham-young-university","tag-cambridge-university","tag-cnn","tag-covid-19-pandemic","tag-donald-trump","tag-dr-zbigniew-piotrowski","tag-educated-book","tag-education","tag-ethiopian-jews","tag-fareed-zakaria","tag-ghassan-kanafani","tag-harvard-university","tag-idaho","tag-mormons","tag-north-african-jews","tag-ohio","tag-populism","tag-religious-extremism","tag-return-to-haifa-book","tag-russian-jews","tag-tara-westover","tag-youngstown","tag-youngstown-arab-american-community-center","tag-youngstown-state-university"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"Sam Bahour (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder & Emeritus Member of Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7090,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/7090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}