Bayna al-watan wa al-manfa : min Yafa badaa al-mishwar Tapa dura - 2007

Beirut: Riyad al-Rayyis lil-Kutub wa-al-Nashr, 2007. al-Tab`ah 1 (First edition). Hardcover. Gentle small bumpto a single corner ; else Very Fine ; As New.. Small quarto in custom dark green faux-leather boards and gilt titles to spine, original wraps bound in; 548 p., index; 24 cm. In Arabic. Presumably very scarce in hardcover. Title on t.p. verso: From homeland to exile; the story of a Palestinian from Jaffa. "Shafiq al-Hout also spelled Shafik al-Hut (1932-2009) was a Palestinian politician and writer. Born in Jaffa, he and his family fled to Beirut at the onset of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. There, al-Hout became a journalist at al-Hawadth newspaper. Using it as a platform, he founded the Palestine Liberation Front in 1961 and later became a founder of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964. He remained a senior member of the organization, representing it in Lebanon and the United Nations General Assembly. Initially a close aid to Yasser Arafat, al-Hout resigned from his position on… Leer más