TY - BOOK AU - Goldberg,Jeffrey TI - Prisoners: a Muslim and a Jew across the Middle East divide SN - 0375412344 (hbk.) AV - B PN 4874 G618p 2006 U1 - 070.92 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Knopf KW - Goldberg, Jeffrey, KW - Hijazi, Rafiq. KW - Jewish journalists KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Palestinian Arabs KW - United Arab Emirates KW - Arab-Israeli conflict KW - Middle East KW - Ethnic relations N2 - "They met in 1990 during the first Palestinian uprising - one an American Jew who served as a guard in the largest prison in Israel, the other his prisoner Rafiq, a rising leader in the PLO. Despite their fears and prejudices, they began a dialogue there that grew into a remarkable friendship - and now a remarkable book. It is a book that confronts head-on the issues dividing the Middle East, but one that also shines a ray of hope on that dark, embattled region." "Jeffrey Goldberg, now an award-winning correspondent for The New Yorker, moved to Israel while still a college student. When he arrived, there was already a war in his heart - a war between the magnetic pull of tribe and the equally determined pull of the universalist ideal. He saw the conflict between the Jews and Arabs as the essence of tragedy, because tragedy is born not in the collision of fight and wrong, but of right and right."; "Soon, as a military policeman in the Israeli army, he was sent to the Ketziot prison camp, a barbed-wire city of tents and machine gun towers buried deep in the Negev Desert. Ketziot held six thousand Arabs, the flower of the Intifada: its rock-throwers, knifemen, bomb-makers, and propagandists. He realized that this was an extraordinary opportunity to learn from them about themselves, especially because among the prisoners may have been the future leaders of Palestine." "Prisoners is an account of life in that harsh desert prison - mean, overcrowded, and violent - and of Goldberg's extraordinary dialogue with Rafiq, which continues to this day."--BOOK JACKET UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2006041026-s.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0662/2006041026-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0661/2006041026-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2006041026-s.html ER -