Prisoners by Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg moved from Long Island to Israel while still a college student. In the middle of the first Palestinian uprising in 1990, the Israeli army sent him to serve as a prison guard at Ketziot, the largest jail in the Middle East. Realizing that among the prisoners were the future leaders of Palestine, and that this was a unique opportunity to learn from them about themselves, he began an extended dialogue with a prisoner named Rafiq. This is an account of life in that harsh desert prison and of that dialogue – the accusations, explanations, fears, prejudices and aspirations each man expressed – which continues to this day. We see how their discussion deepened over the years as Goldberg returned to the States, to Washington, DC, where Rafiq coincidentally became a graduate student, and the political landscape of the Middle East changed. And we see, again and again, how their willingness to confront religious, cultural, and political differences made possible what both could finally acknowledge to be a true, if necessarily tenuous, friendship. Prisoners is a remarkable book: spare, impassioned, energetic, and unstinting in its candour about both the darkness and the hope buried within the animosities of the Middle East.
Jeffrey Goldberg was Middle East correspondent and Washington correspondent for the New Yorker. He is currently, succeeding James Bennet, editor-in-chief of the The Atlantic. He won the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2003 for his coverage of terrorism. He is also the recipient of the Daniel Pearl Prize and an Overseas Press Club award for human rights reporting. He has also written for the New York Times magazine, the Jerusalem Post, and the Forward. He lives with his family in Washington, D.C.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330488204 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330488201 |
| Titel | Prisoners |
| Autor | Jeffrey Goldberg |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Pan Macmillan |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2007-04-06 |
| Seitenanzahl | 4 |
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