{"id":4288,"date":"2010-10-29T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T19:03:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T17:03:54","slug":"epalestine-new-book-letters-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2010\/10\/epalestine-new-book-letters-from\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book: Letters from Palestine (by Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Abdullah)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear friends,<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Please allow me to draw your attention to a new book that is now in the marketplace:<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Letters from Palestine: Palestinians Speak Out about Their Lives, Their Country, and the Power of Nonviolence<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

by Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Abdullah<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Paperback: 384 pages<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Publisher: Wheatmark (July 15, 2010)<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Language: English<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

ISBN-10: 1604944161<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 978-1604944167<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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See: <\/span> <\/font> http:\/\/www.lettersfrompalestine.com\/<\/u> <\/span> <\/font> <\/a><\/p>\n

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Having been a co-editor to a volume of oral histories on Palestine and Palestinians after the first Gulf War, I feel this book is a natural extension which brings the reality of every day Palestinians to the reader.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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I personally know several of the people whose accounts are offered. The book is an easy read and full of normal Palestinian life, which is not normal by any stretch of the imagination.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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I strongly encourage you to buy and donate a copy to your public local library. Also, if you are a Palestinian diaspora parent raising your kids outside of Palestine, this book is a must read for you, and them.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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History, from the people, by the people, and for the people, <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Sam<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Dear friends, Please allow me to draw your attention to a new book that is now in the marketplace: Letters from Palestine: Palestinians Speak Out about Their Lives, Their Country, and the Power of Nonviolence by Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Abdullah Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Wheatmark (July 15, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1604944161 ISBN-13: 978-1604944167 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-4288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"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\/4288","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=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}