First Tie Your Camel, Then Trust in God: An American Feminist in the Arab World - Softcover

Moore, Chivvis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1634139534 ISBN 13: 9781634139533

Verlag: NORTH LOOP BOOKS, 2016

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On a fateful evening in 1978, Chivvis Moore, living as a carpenter in California, stops by the house of an architect friend. "What if I wrote to Hassan Fathy?" Chivvis suggests, eager to meet the Egyptian author of the influential Architecture for the Poor. Less than three months later, Chivvis arrives in Cairo knowing virtually nothing about the culture and religion of the predominantly Muslim Middle East.  What begins as a trip to meet Hassan Fathy becomes a 16-year odyssey that stretches from a year working in the shop of a master carpenter in Egypt to fraught years teaching English in Palestine.Offering a portrait of a land and a people not found in newspaper headlines or on television screens, "First Tie Your Camel, Then Trust in God" humanizes the misunderstandings, misconceptions, and tragedies that arise when we fail to appreciate the humanity at the core of us all.

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"This is a beautiful, sad, and deeply moving story. Reading it, I have learned a lot of disturbing history about something I thought I knew a lot about but never saw in such depth or personal detail. This is an important memoir that needs to be read and can have a powerful impact. It's timely, original, and written with a painful authenticity. It evokes tears and also some laughter, with a great sense of compassion and empathy." -- Alan Rinzler, veteran acquiring and developmental editor, formerly at major publishing houses including Simon & Schuster "I have been curled up for two days straight reading Chivvis Moore's book about Egypt and Palestine. This is superb, highly readable, AMAZING. I am totally immersed in the Egyptian narrative I am certain that this lovely and thoughtful book, in its current form, needs to see the light of day!" -- Diana Digges, former editor, "The Cairo Times," lived in Cairo nine years, now an activist with Jewish Voice for Peace and leader of churchgoers to Palestine for the Universalist Unitarian Church "I cried all the way through reading 'First Tie Your Camel, Then Trust in God'. The tone, the genuine and honest description of reactions and feelings about the experiences enabled me to truly understand for the first why, as a Palestinian living in the West Bank, I always feel so upset and physically ill." -- Muna Giacaman, Instructor, Language of Languages and Translation, Birzeit University, Birzeit, West Bank, Occupied Palestine "Reading this book was like being able to pass through one of the arched doorways in an Arab street and to walk along the narrow winding streets into a world that has always until now lain hidden." -- Terry Greenblatt, former director of the Israeli women's peace and justice organization, Bat Shalom, in Jerusalem; former director Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights, Boulder, Colorado; current Advisor for the Middle East Children's Alliance in Berkeley, California.

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• Verlag: NORTH LOOP BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1634139534
• ISBN 13: 9781634139533
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 422