{"id":3701,"date":"2017-06-02T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-03-30T18:28:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T16:28:49","slug":"epalestine-kingdom-of-olives-and-ash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2017\/06\/epalestine-kingdom-of-olives-and-ash\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation [Recommended]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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 <\/strong>Edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation,<\/em> Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today\u2019s most renowned novelists and essayists, have teamed up with the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence\u2014an organization comprised of former Israeli soldiers who served in the occupied territories and saw firsthand the injustice there\u2014and a host of illustrious writers to tell the stories of the people on the ground in the contested territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and includes contributions from today\u2019s most esteemed storytellers, including Colum McCann, Jacqueline Woodson, Colm Toibin, Geraldine Brooks, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru, Raja Shehadeh, Madeleine Thien, Mario Vargas Llosa and Assaf Gavron, as well as Chabon and Waldman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Sam<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Proud to have contributed in several ways to this book project. Actually, it's much more than a book project as you will see by who the authors are and what their riveting stories reveal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This may very well be one of the final wake up calls to save Israel from itself, let alone getting the dirty Israeli boot of occupation off the Palestinians\u2019 neck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hats off to you all\u2026onward and upward until we are all free and equal, Palestinians and Israelis alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about the book and read excerpts at olivesandashtour.nif.org<\/a> and purchase the book on Bookshop.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Book Details<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Title<\/td>Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation<\/td><\/tr>
Editors<\/td>Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman<\/td><\/tr>
Publisher<\/td>Harper Perennial<\/td><\/tr>
Publish Date<\/td>May 30, 2017<\/td><\/tr>
Pages<\/td>448<\/td><\/tr>
Language<\/td>English<\/td><\/tr>
Type<\/td>Paperback \/ softback<\/td><\/tr>
EAN\/UPC<\/td>9780062431783<\/td><\/tr>
Dimensions<\/td>9.0 X 6.0 X 1.1 inches | 16.8 pounds<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proud to have contributed in several ways to this book project. Actually, it’s much more than a book project as you will see by who the authors are and what their riveting stories reveal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[948],"tags":[1341,1338,1339,396,397,285,398,399,400,1344,1346,1345,97,401,402,1340,439,403,404,1336,1335,1333,405,1337,406,158,1342,1343,1124,1598,1347],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-ala-hishel","tag-anita-desai","tag-arnon-grunberg","tag-assaf-gavron","tag-ayelet-waldman","tag-breaking-the-silence","tag-colm-toibin","tag-colum-mccann","tag-dave-eggers","tag-eimear-mcbride","tag-emily-raboteau","tag-eva-menasse","tag-fida-jiryis","tag-geraldine-brooks","tag-hari-kunzru","tag-helen-habila","tag-israeli-defense-forces","tag-jacqueline-woodson","tag-kingdom-of-olives-and-ash","tag-lars-saabye-christensen","tag-lorraine-adams","tag-madeleine-thien","tag-mario-vargas-llosa","tag-maylis-de-kerangal","tag-michael-chabon","tag-occupied-territories","tag-porachisto-khakpour","tag-rachel-kushner","tag-raja-shehadeh","tag-sam-in-books","tag-taiye-selasi"],"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<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour played a foundational role in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of Just Vision<\/a> and The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n

A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour is the co-editor of Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201cThe Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n

He tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10361,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions\/10361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}