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Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family

A frank and entertaining memoir—from the daughter of Edward Said—now in paperback.The daughter of the famous intellectual and outspoken Palestinian advocate Edward Said and a sophisticated Lebanese mother, Najla Said grew up in New York City, confused and conflicted about her cultural background and identity. Said knew that her parents identified deeply with their homelands, but growing up in a Manhattan world that was defined largely by class and conformity, she felt unsure about who she was supposed to be, and was often in denial of the differences she sensed between her family and those around her. She may have been born a Palestinian Lebanese American, but Said denied her true roots, even to herself—until, ultimately, the psychological toll of her self-hatred began to threaten her health.As she grew older, she eventually came to see herself, her passions, and her identity more clearly. Today she is a voice for second-generation Arab Americans nationwide.

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• Hardcover : 199 pages


• Title : Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family


• Language : English


• ISBN-10 : 1594632758

 

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Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab American Family by. Najla Said. 3.65 · Rating details · 759 ratings · 113 reviews A frank and entertaining memoir, from the daughter of Edward Said, about growing up second generation Arab American and struggling with that identity.
Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab
Thoughtful, searching, and open eyed, Looking for Palestine takes readers on a journey into an Arab American girl's search for identity. The joy and pain of growing up in the long shadow of a brilliant parent, the struggle for meaning and belonging, and the painful dispossession of the Palestinians are all treated with tender care as Najla Said gives us a haunting and singular life story.—Diana Abu Jaber, author of Crescent
Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab
Looking for Palestine is a heart breaking, funny, and honest look at what it is like to grow up in multi cultural environment. The author’s experiences are something that can be related to by people ...
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"Najla Said's "Looking for Palestine "is a compassionate and candid book on her courageous coming of age in contemporary America. Said is a brilliant, talented and sensitive artist with a larger than life, loving father." Professor Cornel West "A deeply penetrating, often hilarious, and occasionally devastating account of growing up Arab American.
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Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab American Family by Najla Said book review. Click to read the full review of Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab American Family in New York Journal of Books. Review written by Sarah Schulman.
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The publication of Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab American Family, by Najla Said (Edward Mariam Said's daughter) is a beauty of a book to read. The journey into and through Najla's life (and the implications of such a trail trekked for her immediate and extended family) is well told and poignantly recounted in Looking for ...
Looking For Palestine : Growing Up Confused in an Arab
"Najla Said's "Looking for Palestine "is a compassionate and candid book on her courageous coming of age in contemporary America. Said is a brilliant, talented and sensitive artist with a larger than life, loving father." Professor Cornel West "A deeply penetrating, often hilarious, and occasionally devastating account of growing up Arab American.
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And my guest is Najla Said. Her book, "Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab American Family." You can join our conversation, 1 800 433 8850. Or send us an email, drshow@wamu.org. And, Najla, we were talking about all of these ways in which you were confused.

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