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The Anderson Chronicles
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An Intimate Portrait of Augsburg College � 1963-1997
By Richard C. Nelson & Dave Wood
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Alison describes the daily existence of Palestinian civilians'a life of curfews, checkpoints, and closures which produce relentless humiliation and fear. This is the voice of a wife and mother, an American expatriate living with her Palestinian husband and their young children in occupied Bethlehem during the incursions of the Israeli army following the uprising known as the Al Aqsa Intifada. Her email journal reveals her attempt to find reason for hope that one day normalcy will come to the land called Holy. The book is titled after Mathilda, Alison's eldest daughter. ("Imm Mathilda" is Arabic for "mother of Mathilda.")
Alison Jones Nassar, a native of New Jersey, worked for five years with the archaeology department at Hebrew Union College. Later, her artistic talents led to a position illustrating archaeological material at the Albright Archaeological Institute in Jerusalem. She also studied Hebrew on an Israeli kibbutz and Arabic at the Jerusalem YMCA. At the age of thirty she married a Palestinian, George Bishara Daher Nassar, from an old Bethlehem Christian family. Alison and George are raising their three daughters in Bethlehem.
Fred Strickert, a professor of Religion at Wartburg College, has been leading study groups to the Middle East for fifteen years. While living in Bethlehem in 1995-96, he co-authored Bethlehem 2000: Then and Now (Palmyra: Heidelberg, 1998) with Palestinian Lutheran Pastor Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb. He has published articles on the Middle East in The Christian Century, The Christian Science Monitor, The Chicago Tribune, The Des Moines Register, and Scripps Howard Syndicate newspapers and writes a monthly column on Christianity and the Middle East in The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
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ISBN:
1886513341
160
Pages
Size:
6 x 9
Binding:
Perfectbound
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