This is the story of Ramzi Aburedwan, a Palestinian born in Ramallah during the occupation. The book chronicles his development from a stone-throwing child to the director of a number of music schools in Ramallah and various refugee camps in Lebanon. It is a story of how an encounter with music can transform someone, give hope and a life beyond the anger and frustration that people live with in situations of occupation and repression. A complicated man.
The book inevitably touches on many issues related to the plight of Palestinians under occupation. You get a picture of some of the elements of day-to-day life for Palestinians living in Israel. As background, the book also touches on the various steps and failings of the peace process, the two Intifada's, and the current divestment campaign.
Worth the read in that it humanizes certain aspects of this troubling situation that seems to never get closer to being resolved.
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