In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story Paperback – July 7, 2009

The author does not only cover history but sets it in human form, things that most people never even think about. throughout the author tries to make peace and friends with all sides but again and again runs right into a brick wall in many instances. Wonderful observations of the times, characteristics of certain ethnic groups, religions and cultural differences.

I first read this as a teenager and have picked it up now 20 years later, though it stayed with me throughout my whole life. A gorgeous and important book.

This memoir provided a new, more complex understanding of the conflicts in Syria, Lebanon and Israel. It offers important historical background details that are as relevant today as they were 60 years ago. It's a pleasure to read, interesting, and well paced. I've recommended it to many people and they have all had the same reaction as myself; In the US, we are getting a negatively biased picture of that region of the world. History and current events collide in this eye-opening book.

A captivating Memoir of a middle class Palestinian family, one of more than 700,000 Palestinians uprooted and displaced from their historic homeland, Palestine, in 1948. In this memoir Ms. Karmi has documented a sample of the continuing suffering and injustice brought upon the Palestinian People by the creation of the Illegitimate State of Israel. While expressing the complex social and cultural feelings, hardships, and struggles in coping with the brutality of displacement and diaspora, Ms. Karmi remains optimistic and hopeful that Justice and Right will prevail.This book must be read by young Palestinians, Israelis, Americans, Europeans, and Arabs, to truly understand and appreciate the only solution that will bring a lasting Peace in Palestine.

this was a great book for me because I could identify with the author on so many levels - the feeling that you don't really belong anywhwere, the searching for an identity and the sadness and lonliness you feel when no one, not even your own family, understands what you are going through. She articulated so many things that I experienced growing up that I never fully understood until I read this book. Very well done.

Great book opened my eyes when I did not know they were closed

Ideal for a gift to my husband....he do not expected ...he did not found here in Mexico city....Idont know if Ican wait until christmas

Read it !!!