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Exile's Return: The Making of a Palestinian American
Palestinian writer Fawaz Turki was expelled from Israel in 1949 along with his family, and spent his boyhood in the refugee camps of Beirut.
Fawaz turki biography of abraham lincoln
As a young man living in Paris, where he became active in the Palestinian nationalist movement, he met and married an American and returned with her to the United States, only to be quickly caught up in the currents of social protest and rebellion of the 1960s - experiences which had a powerfully transformative effect on him, though many years would pass before he realized its actual extent.
In Exile's Return, Turki tells the story of this personal and political odyssey in a highly evocative memoir that interweaves scenes of his life as an exile with incidents of his visit, after a forty-year absence, to the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Though he continued to think of himself as an exile, Turki writes, during his years in the U.S. he had unconsciously absorbed the liberal values of Am