Full name: The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

Author: Sandy Tolan Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Politics Culture: Israel Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781596913431 1596913436

In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Ashkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and Bashir began a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next thirty-five years in ways that neither could imagine on that summer day in 1967. Based on extensive research, and springing from his enormously resonant documentary that aired on NPR's Fresh Air in 1998, Sandy Tolan brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict down to its most human level, suggesting that even amid the bleakest political realities there exist stories of hope and reconciliation. Similar books: The End of the Peace Process by Edward W. Said Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Charles D. Smith The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said The Iron Wall by Avi Shlaim The Gun and the Olive Branch by David Hirst Strangers in the House by Raja Shehadeh Drinking the Sea at Gaza by Amira Hass The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe The Politics of Dispossession by Edward W. Said Palestinian Identity by Rashid Khalidi Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky 1949 by Tom Segev Battleground by Samuel M. Katz Arab and Jew by David K. Shipler Sleeping on a Wire by David Grossman Against Our Better Judgment by Alison Weir Israel by Daniel Gordis Beyond Chutzpah by Norman G. Finkelstein Goliath by Max Blumenthal Righteous Victims by Benny Morris