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Title: If You Could Be My Friend: Letters of Mervet Akram Sha'Ban and Galit Fink (Venture-health & the Human Body)
Publisher: Orchard Books
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 053133113X
ISBN 13: 9780531331132
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good

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Contains the correspondence between two girls, one an Israeli and the other a Palestinian

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Grade 5-10-This collection of letters written between 1988 and 1991-the time of the Palestinian intifada in Israel-consists of the correspondence between a Palestinian Arab girl living in a refugee camp located between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, and a Jewish girl living in Jerusalem. The letters detail the ups and downs of an emerging and struggling friendship between two girls whose peoples are fighting each other for the same piece of homeland, and they clearly reflect each girl's hope for peace and her deeply felt suspicions of the other. After three years of corresponding, they eventually overcome the obstacles of bloody political events and their own families' concerns and meet in a neutral setting. The book concludes with a historical overview with background on the events leading to the establishment of the state of Israel and the resistance of her Arab neighbors to the new nation. Unfortunately, the lives of Mervet and Galit are only outlined through their correspondence and there is no follow-up to what happened to them after they met in 1991; young readers will have many questions that are not answered in this personalized slice of history. Although the intifada backdrop to the letters makes the book more of a historical footnote than a reflection of current reality, the actual letters in their simplicity and directness starkly indicate the wide bridge that needs to be crossed if peace is to come to the region.
Jack Forman, Mesa College Library, San Diego
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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