The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning--some ancient, some mythical, some religious--that it feels like an unreal city, even to the people who call it home. Today, the city is hemmed in by a wall and surrounded by forty-one Israeli settlements and hostile settlers and soldiers. The population is undergoing such enormous strains it is close to falling apart. Any town with an eleven-thousand-year history has to be robust, but Bethlehem may soon go the way of Salonica or Constantinople: the physical site might survive, but the long thread winding back to the ancient past will have snapped, and the city risks losing everything that makes it unique.
Still, for many, Bethlehem remains the "little town" of the Christmas song. Nicholas Blincoe will tell the history of the famous little town, through the visceral experience of living there, taking readers through its stone streets and desert wadis, its monasteries, aqueducts and orchards, showing the city from every angle and era. Inevitably, a portrait of Bethlehem will shed light on one of the world's most intractable political problems. Bethlehem is a much-loved Palestinian city, a source of pride and wealth but also a beacon of co-existence in a region where hopelessness, poverty and violence has become the norm. Bethlehem could light the way to a better future, but if the city is lost then the chances of an end to the Israel-Palestine conflict will be lost with it.
Κατασκευαστής
- Συγγραφέας
- Nicholas Blincoe
- Εκδότης
- Little Brown Book Group
- Γλώσσα
- Αγγλικά
- Υπότιτλος
- Biography of a Town
- Εξώφυλλο
- Μαλακό
- Αριθμός σελίδων
- 288
- Είδος
- Βιογραφία
- Περίοδος
- Αρχαιότητα-Μεσαίωνας
- Ιδιότητα
- Πολιτικοί
- Έτος έκδοσης
- 2018
- Διαστάσεις
- 12.6x19.6 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781472128645
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