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URL:https://palestinecampaign.org/events/abusittaevent-2/
SUMMARY:Book Launch & Seminar “Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir”
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch &amp\; Seminar:“Mapping My Return: A Palestinia
 n Memoir” by Dr Salman Abu Sitta\n\nInvited speakers:\nSelma Dabbagh\nAm
 bassador Afif Safieh\nProfessor Ilan Pappe\nVictoria Brittain (chair)\nBy 
 Dr Salman Abu Sitta\n\nAn event hosted by Palestine Solidarity Campaign an
 d Palestinian Return Centre.\n\nBook your tickets\n\nSalman Abu Sitta\, wh
 o has single-handedly made available crucial mapping work on Palestine\, w
 as just ten years old when he left his home near Beersheba in 1948\, but a
 s for many Palestinians of his generation\, the profound effects of that t
 raumatic loss would form the defining feature of his life from that moment
  on. In this rich and moving memoir\, Abu Sitta draws on oral histories an
 d personal recollections to vividly evoke the vanished world of his family
  and home from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the British withd
 rawal from Palestine and subsequent war. Alongside accounts of an idyllic 
 childhood spent on his family’s farm estate Abu Sitta gives a personal a
 nd very human face to the dramatic events of 1930s and 1940s Palestine\, c
 onveying the acute sense of foreboding felt by Palestinians as Zionist amb
 itions and militarization expanded under the mandate. Following his family
 ’s flight to Gaza during the 1948 mass exodus of Palestinians from their
  homes\, Abu Sitta continued his schooling and university education in Cai
 ro\, where he witnessed the heady rise of Arab nationalism after the overt
 hrow of King Farouk in 1952 and the momentous events surrounding the Israe
 li invasion of Sinai and Gaza in 1956. With warmth and humor\, he chronicl
 es his peripatetic exile’s existence\, as an engineering student in Nass
 er’s Egypt\, his crucial\, formative years in 1960s London\, his life as
  a family man and academic in Canada\, and several sojourns in Kuwait\, al
 l against the backdrop of seismic political events in the region\, includi
 ng the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli wars\, the 1982 Israeli invasion of Leba
 non\, and the 1991 Gulf War. Abu Sitta’s narrative is imbued throughout 
 with a burning sense of justice\, a determination to recover and document 
 what rightfully belongs to his people\, an aim given poignant expression i
 n his painstaking cartographic and archival work on Palestine\, for which 
 he is justifiably acclaimed.\n\nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch
 -seminar-mapping-my-return-a-palestinian-memoir-by-dr-salman-abu-sitta-tic
 kets-24423732040\n\nMon 16 May 2016\n18:30–20:30\nKhalili Lecture Theatr
 e\,\nSOAS University of London\,\nThornhaugh Street\,\nRussell Square\, Lo
 ndon\, WC1H 0XG
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LOCATION:Khalili Lecture Theatre\, SOAS \, Thornhaugh St\, London\, WC1H 0X
 G\, London \, United Kingdom
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