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"Murad Murad" by Suad Amiry

"What we have done in the last ten fucking hours? Why fired? Because we have chased, beaten and arrested if we are still" with us "on our land, on the other side of the West Bank? If the wall separating the Palestine by Israel, because we harass our house? " The adventure of a group of Palestinians in search of illegal employment in the land of Israel.


sex change. Suad Amiry is well aware that this is the only way to tell the paradoxical situation of Palestinian workers have to cross the border with Israel to find work. And so ago. Suad disguises herself as a man and reached a village at night near Ramallah where he began his journey along roads lined with olive trees that lead to Israel, along with Mohammad trust in Murad - brash, crude, tamarro, like many a boy - and their friends. They laugh, joke, talk about the work that perhaps awaits them beyond the border, but the head is always somewhere else: the Israeli soldiers who might arrest them at any moment, the formal notice that they would receive if they were taken and attesting a "preventive detention", the bullet shot by some sniper hidden in the trees.

When, after a march over the hills and a series of misfortunes, they are able to overcome the wall and set foot in Israel, it's too late: the work is gone. Merge with Israeli civilians and board a bus to begin the journey back home. Ahead of them a landscape not seen unknown but perhaps for the first time with different eyes: all that was "Palestinian" is no more, no more memory architecture, crops, the daily life of a people who lived there for centuries.

Suad Amiry is an architect Palestinian Riwaq founder and director of the Center for Architectural Conservation in Ramallah. Raised in Amman, Damascus, Beirut and Cairo, he studied architecture at the American University Beirut and the University of Michigan, eventually specializing in Edinburgh. Since 1981 he teaches architecture at Birzeit University, and since then, living in Ramallah. He has written and edited numerous books on different aspects of Palestinian architecture.

"Murad Murad"
Suad Amiry
FELTRINELLI
Translation: Maria Nadotti
Collection: Various
Pages: 176
Price: Euro 14.5
In Library from September 9, 2009

Appointments Suad Amiry:

- meeting with the author to present the new book "Murad Murad 'the 01/10/2009, at 18.30 at the Feltrinelli Books and Music, 31/35 Galleria Colonna in Rome.

- meeting with the author for the presentation of the book "Murad Murad" on 02.10.2009, at 18.30 at the Feltrinelli Books and Music, Martyrs Square in Naples.

- "Writing at the time of war." Meet the author at the International Festival, on 03/10/2009, at 11.30 am, at the Apollo Cinema in Ferrara.