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challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
I wish I had a whole discussion group, full of individuals of wide backgrounds, to engage with about I Saw Ramallah. I must confess upfront that I definitely did not understand all of it - my knowledge of Palestine and its history is woefully limited, and I'm still trying to fill in those gaps. That said, what I did understand was beautifully written and agonizingly heartbreaking in content. To be ripped from your homeland, from your family, to be painted as the agressor, to lose your loved ones thousands of miles from yourself - I cannot imagine any of these horrors, but Barghouti gives raw and gutting approximation in how he writes. I need my own copy of this - there are too many poignant passages for me to quote one or two here.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, Xenophobia, Death, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Colonisation, Deportation, and Grief
Moderate: Gun violence and War
Minor: Pregnancy, Hate crime, and Miscarriage
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