In Hope and Despair: Life in the Palestinian Refugee Camps - Softcover

Grondahl, Mia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9774248112 ISBN 13: 9789774248115

Publisher: Amer Univ in Cairo Pr, 2003

Synopsis

More than fifty years after the establishment of the State of Israel, almost four million Palestinian refugees are still waiting to return to their old homeland, most of them living under harsh conditions in overcrowded camps in the Occupied Territories and other countries in the Middle East. It is a wait that has now been passed on to a fourth generation. Between 1999 and 2002, Swedish photographer Mia Gröaut;ndahl visited most of the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, documenting through a remarkable series of intimate, direct, and powerfully honest images the lives of a people making the best of a 'temporary' existence that has lasted over half a century, a people whose lives have been put on hold but who still have not given up the hope that one day the world will listen to them and recognize their right to return.

About this title

About the Author:

Mia Gröaut;ndahl is a Swedish journalist and photographer who has been based in the Middle East since 1996. After five years in East Jerusalem, she is now living in Cairo. During her years in the Middle East she has documented the lives of the Palestinians in numerous exhibitions and books. Some of the photographs in this book were included in her exhibition ''UNRWA and the Palestinian Refugees: 50 Years,'' which was inaugurated by Secretary General Kofi Annan at the UN headquarters in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amer Univ in Cairo Pr
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 9774248112
• ISBN 13: 9789774248115
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144