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A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter's Journey From Refugee Camp To The Arab Spring

A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter's Journey From Refugee Camp To The Arab Spring

by Nahlah Ayed

Penguin Group Canada | April 10, 2012 | Hardcover

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In 1976, Nahlah Ayed's family gave up their comfortable life in Winnipeg for the squalor of a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan. The transition was jarring, but it was from this uncomfortable situation that Ayed first observed the people whose heritage she shared. The family returned to Canada when she was thirteen, and Ayed ignored the Middle East for many years. But the First Gulf War and the events of 9/11 reignited her interest. Soon she was reporting from the region full-time, trying to make sense of the wars and upheavals that have affected its people and sent so many of them seeking a better life elsewhere.
 
In A Thousand Farewells, Ayed describes with sympathy and insight the myriad ways in which the Arab people have fought against oppression and loss as seen from her own early days witnessing protests in Amman, and the wars, crackdowns, and uprisings she has reported on in countries across the region.
 
This is the heartfelt and personal chronicle of a journalist who has devoted much of her career to covering one of the world's most vexing regions.
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A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter's Journey From Refugee Camp To The Arab Spring

by Nahlah Ayed

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In 1976, Nahlah Ayed's family gave up their comfortable life in Winnipeg for the squalor of a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan. The transition was jarring, but it was from this uncomfortable situation that Ayed first observed the people whose heritage she shared. The family returned to Canada when she was thirteen, and Ayed ignored the Middle East for many years. But the First Gulf War and the events of 9/11 reignited her interest. Soon she was reporting from the region full-time, trying to make sense of the wars and upheavals that have affected its people and sent so many of them seeking a better life elsewhere.
 
In A Thousand Farewells, Ayed describes with sympathy and insight the myriad ways in which the Arab people have fought against oppression and loss as seen from her own early days witnessing protests in Amman, and the wars, crackdowns, and uprisings she has reported on in countries across the region.
 
This is the heartfelt and personal chronicle of a journalist who has devoted much of her career to covering one of the world's most vexing regions.

Format: Hardcover

Dimensions: 368 Pages, 6.3 × 9.06 × 0.79 in

Published: April 10, 2012

Publisher: Penguin Group Canada

Language: English

The following ISBNs are associated with this title:

ISBN - 10: 0670069094

ISBN - 13: 9780670069095

From the Critics

"Powerful . [A Thousand Farewells is] part memoir, part history lesson on the Arab world-and quietly, but oh so passionately, a defence of good old-fashioned journalism in a time of cost cuts and Google News.. Ayed brings insight to big societal issues .. But she is at her most persuasive recounting the stories of ordinary Arabs she meets along the way." - The Gazette (Montreal)

About the Author

Nahlah Ayed was born in Winnipeg of Palestinian descent, and is fluent in Arabic and English. She joined the CBC in 2002 and is currently a CBC correspondent.

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