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Ghada Karmi

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born

January 01, 1939 in Jerusalem, Palestinian Territory, Occupied

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female

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Literature & Fiction

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Dr Ghada Karmi was born in Palestine and then had to flee with her family when it became Israel. She grew up in Britain and now she's a doctor, author, academic, and well-know international commentator on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Ghada still vividly remembers a huge bombing just behind her house in Jerusalem. "It was absolutely dreadful. I was bewildered, I was scared - I could see my parents were scared, which is very scary for a child because you think your parents know it all and they look after you. I knew, from that moment on, things had changed for us. I didn't know how, but things weren't going to be the same again."

After fleeing their family home, her family eventually settled in London. "My mother was very angry about the...more

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Books by Ghada Karmi

Average rating: 3.94 · 174 ratings · 46 reviews · 7 distinct works

	In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story 3.94 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Married to Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	In Search of Fatima: Mencari Fatima 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004	My rating:
	Health And The Movement Of Labour After 1992: Proceedings Of A Joint Conference Held By North West Thames Regional Health Authority And The King's Fund Centre For Health Services Development, 15 September 1989 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Jerusalem Today: What Future for the Peace Process 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Ethnic Health Handbook: A Factfile for Health Care Professionals 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	Ghaddar the Ghoul and Other Palestinian Stories by Sonia Nimr, Hannah Shaw (Illustrator), Ghada Karmi (Introduction) 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“...We never set eyes on Fatima or our dog or the city we had known ever again. Like a body prematurely buried, unmourned withpot coffin or ceremony, our hasty untidy exit from Jerusalem was no way to have said goodbye to our home, our country and all that we knew and loved.”
― Ghada Karmi, In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story

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