In Jasmine's all the love and hatred of two nations, which can lead one between an Arab and a Palestinian?
The first novel by Eli Amir, Israeli writer, tells us that the conquest of East Jerusalem in 1967.
"and described the city \u200b\u200bas a poet's lover, saying that its stones speak in rhyme, a golden light, sweet and gentle, winding. He told the Grand Mosque of Omar and al-Aqsa, the rock from which Muhammad ascended to heaven was riding his horse al-Buraq, and of course the Temple Mount, the Wailing Wall ... here is preserved the spirit of the prophets, sages, kings and poets who have lived in this city and have given nine measures of beauty, but also transforming it in a messianic, like a magnet that attracts crazy all over the world, people in search of redemption, waiting of an imaginary Messiah and whose prayers will not be exhausted. " So Eli Amir describes the city of Jerusalem in his first novel published in Italy by Einaudi Jasmine and available in bookstores. The Israeli writer lets us know this story that unfolds in a newly re-conquered Jerusalem by the Israelis in the war of '67, a little-known literature such as the Israeli Sephardic. That fact is often anchored in the folk context, recalling the colorful and a bit 'nostalgic for a world extinct. Here we are instead on a whole different level: modeled on the political, historical and social.
The plot unfolds as if it were a travelogue of the protagonist to discover that unknown world that East Jerusalem was for Israel in the aftermath of victory, but also the personal journey to discovering what it means to be Israeli in the aftermath of war and confrontation / clash with the other Arab.
Just as radios of Cairo, Amman, Damascus still sing the heroic deeds of their armies, Israeli soldiers have been busy (or released) in East Jerusalem. Nothing will ever be, in the Middle East, as elsewhere in the world. As it suggests by the words of Prime Minister Eshkol, the Israeli government is also well aware that early in the new situation, the issues related to the area east of the city: "It's the V for victory? - Asked the Secretary. Eshkol looked at him without smiling. No, it is W of the Wi krikht men zikh oys, as we work it out? ... I consider it an example of clarity in the euphoria that permeated all of us, of humanity between the roars of victory. " To best meet this new situation for appointing director of Arab affairs thirty-something Sephardic jew Nuri Elias Nasseh.
The figure of the protagonist of the novel may seem in all respects cloned on the experience of the author's life, both were born in Baghdad, their first language is Arabic, have had the experience of refugees from Iraq who flee to take refuge in Israel's experience in Kibbutz Mishmar Haemek new immigrant, the institutional role done. A life in balance continuously, trying to mediate and seek points of contact between two cultures are very distant now.
Nuri finds himself faced with a reality shared by the bitterness and frustration of those who lost the war, which coexists with the euphoria and disbelief of those who won it but has not yet become aware of the complex reality that awaits him. He feels deeply connected to the Arab culture from which it derives and in which is located at the same time can not forget to be a jew. The internal split that will go Nuri feels throughout the novel constructed through a continuous interplay of opposites, in which everything is opposed, places, characters , In their stories. Within the Arab world as in the exploding Israeli conflict and tension between those who want to remain anchored to their positions, without conceding anything, and who would be open to the 'Other' in the knowledge that is the only way to get to know and to live in peace alongside each other.
During the discovery of the East Jerusalem, including its narrow streets and slums, remained hidden until the Six Day War, Nouri try a direct approach with the population approaching one of the most prominent of the city. He knows and enters familiar with Abu George, a Christian Arab owner and journalist of the daily Al Watan and al-restaurant Hurriyeh accepting, at the suggestion of Nuri, to resume its activities, while clashes with Abu Nabil, a member of Abu George Muslim and Arab journalist who prefers to accommodate the talents of Arab propaganda peppering his wares of deceit and lies. Watching from reality he is aware of the needs and reasons for the "enemy" and strives unselfishly to help the Palestinians in alleviating those problems that the new political inconvenience has inevitably created. Strongly opposes the Israeli official, Haram, arrogant and deceitful that does everything to put obstacles instead of solving the messy situations. But listen and help the young and naive shepherd who knows Ghadir during military service in his youth on Mount Scopus. But unfortunately
"In this narrow bed next to a wall of clay, full of cracks, holes and burrows of spiders lizards when I turn I fall into the sea. In this narrow, hard bed did you sleep with me, oh dear, or smash the head - my and my children, against the Wailing Wall? "Jasmine points out how in one of their early discussions," Who belongs to this narrow bed? ". Two people are vying for a piece of land. And Jasmine, tries to make him understand.
the background of a thousand issues of Arab-Israeli conflict, the population problem, the internal differences between the state of Israel Ashkenazi and Sephardim, she arrives. Suddenly. Jasmine is the only son of Abu George, who moved from Paris after a Ph.D. in educational psychology and find a job with the help of Nuri in an Israeli institution that deals with handicapped children. Young Arab
modern Western culture has acquired through studies in a European city, Jasmine stands in contrast to the world that Israel perceives as a "usurper" and trying to combat by all means. Try not want to see a reality that is placed under the eyes, that "our oppressors would bring in the heart of the wounds, just like us." The two young men, a Palestinian Christian and a member of a family jew Orthodox Jews, began to walk along a path of friendship towards a mutual understanding of self and other.
Two parallel roads, such as the Jewish people and the Palestinian people, like that of two young lovers can never intersect in a mutual acceptance of the achievements and limitations inherent in themselves? Only if they understand "The opposite each other-the two sides of a single narrow stream dall'alveo away forever."
The first novel by Eli Amir, Israeli writer, tells us that the conquest of East Jerusalem in 1967.
"and described the city \u200b\u200bas a poet's lover, saying that its stones speak in rhyme, a golden light, sweet and gentle, winding. He told the Grand Mosque of Omar and al-Aqsa, the rock from which Muhammad ascended to heaven was riding his horse al-Buraq, and of course the Temple Mount, the Wailing Wall ... here is preserved the spirit of the prophets, sages, kings and poets who have lived in this city and have given nine measures of beauty, but also transforming it in a messianic, like a magnet that attracts crazy all over the world, people in search of redemption, waiting of an imaginary Messiah and whose prayers will not be exhausted. " So Eli Amir describes the city of Jerusalem in his first novel published in Italy by Einaudi Jasmine and available in bookstores. The Israeli writer lets us know this story that unfolds in a newly re-conquered Jerusalem by the Israelis in the war of '67, a little-known literature such as the Israeli Sephardic. That fact is often anchored in the folk context, recalling the colorful and a bit 'nostalgic for a world extinct. Here we are instead on a whole different level: modeled on the political, historical and social.
The plot unfolds as if it were a travelogue of the protagonist to discover that unknown world that East Jerusalem was for Israel in the aftermath of victory, but also the personal journey to discovering what it means to be Israeli in the aftermath of war and confrontation / clash with the other Arab.
Just as radios of Cairo, Amman, Damascus still sing the heroic deeds of their armies, Israeli soldiers have been busy (or released) in East Jerusalem. Nothing will ever be, in the Middle East, as elsewhere in the world. As it suggests by the words of Prime Minister Eshkol, the Israeli government is also well aware that early in the new situation, the issues related to the area east of the city: "It's the V for victory? - Asked the Secretary. Eshkol looked at him without smiling. No, it is W of the Wi krikht men zikh oys, as we work it out? ... I consider it an example of clarity in the euphoria that permeated all of us, of humanity between the roars of victory. " To best meet this new situation for appointing director of Arab affairs thirty-something Sephardic jew Nuri Elias Nasseh.
The figure of the protagonist of the novel may seem in all respects cloned on the experience of the author's life, both were born in Baghdad, their first language is Arabic, have had the experience of refugees from Iraq who flee to take refuge in Israel's experience in Kibbutz Mishmar Haemek new immigrant, the institutional role done. A life in balance continuously, trying to mediate and seek points of contact between two cultures are very distant now.
Nuri finds himself faced with a reality shared by the bitterness and frustration of those who lost the war, which coexists with the euphoria and disbelief of those who won it but has not yet become aware of the complex reality that awaits him. He feels deeply connected to the Arab culture from which it derives and in which is located at the same time can not forget to be a jew. The internal split that will go Nuri feels throughout the novel constructed through a continuous interplay of opposites, in which everything is opposed, places, characters , In their stories. Within the Arab world as in the exploding Israeli conflict and tension between those who want to remain anchored to their positions, without conceding anything, and who would be open to the 'Other' in the knowledge that is the only way to get to know and to live in peace alongside each other.
During the discovery of the East Jerusalem, including its narrow streets and slums, remained hidden until the Six Day War, Nouri try a direct approach with the population approaching one of the most prominent of the city. He knows and enters familiar with Abu George, a Christian Arab owner and journalist of the daily Al Watan and al-restaurant Hurriyeh accepting, at the suggestion of Nuri, to resume its activities, while clashes with Abu Nabil, a member of Abu George Muslim and Arab journalist who prefers to accommodate the talents of Arab propaganda peppering his wares of deceit and lies. Watching from reality he is aware of the needs and reasons for the "enemy" and strives unselfishly to help the Palestinians in alleviating those problems that the new political inconvenience has inevitably created. Strongly opposes the Israeli official, Haram, arrogant and deceitful that does everything to put obstacles instead of solving the messy situations. But listen and help the young and naive shepherd who knows Ghadir during military service in his youth on Mount Scopus. But unfortunately
"In this narrow bed next to a wall of clay, full of cracks, holes and burrows of spiders lizards when I turn I fall into the sea. In this narrow, hard bed did you sleep with me, oh dear, or smash the head - my and my children, against the Wailing Wall? "Jasmine points out how in one of their early discussions," Who belongs to this narrow bed? ". Two people are vying for a piece of land. And Jasmine, tries to make him understand.
the background of a thousand issues of Arab-Israeli conflict, the population problem, the internal differences between the state of Israel Ashkenazi and Sephardim, she arrives. Suddenly. Jasmine is the only son of Abu George, who moved from Paris after a Ph.D. in educational psychology and find a job with the help of Nuri in an Israeli institution that deals with handicapped children. Young Arab
modern Western culture has acquired through studies in a European city, Jasmine stands in contrast to the world that Israel perceives as a "usurper" and trying to combat by all means. Try not want to see a reality that is placed under the eyes, that "our oppressors would bring in the heart of the wounds, just like us." The two young men, a Palestinian Christian and a member of a family jew Orthodox Jews, began to walk along a path of friendship towards a mutual understanding of self and other.
Two parallel roads, such as the Jewish people and the Palestinian people, like that of two young lovers can never intersect in a mutual acceptance of the achievements and limitations inherent in themselves? Only if they understand "The opposite each other-the two sides of a single narrow stream dall'alveo away forever."
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