Letter to an Arab Friend
The year was 1933: one automobile picked us up to take us both from Jerusalem to Haifa over the road which passes through Nablus. The boat which brought us to Marseilles allowed us to discover for the first time the eastern Mediterranean. We scarcely noticed the British colonials and tourists who surrounded us. The arid rocks and sand which we had…
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1945–1973
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