{"product_id":"we-just-want-to-live-here-a-palestinian-teenager-an-israeli-teenager-an-unlikely-friendship-paperback","title":"We Just Want to Live Here: A Palestinian Teenager, an Israeli Teenager, an Unlikely Friendship - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmal Rifa'i\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eOdelia Ainbinder\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSylke Tempel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePalestinian Amal Rifa'i and Israeli Odelia Ainbinder are two teenage girls who live in the same city, yet worlds apart. They met on a student exchange program to Switzerland. Weeks after they returned, the latest, violent Intifada broke out in the fall of 2000. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut two years later, Middle East correspondent Sylke Tempel encouraged Amal and Odelia to develop their friendship by facilitating an exchange of their deepest feelings through letters. In their letters, Amal and Odelia discuss the Intifada, their families, traditions, suicide bombers, and military service. They write frankly of their anger, frustrations, and fear, but also of their hopes and dreams for a brighter future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTogether, Amal and Odelia give us a renewed sense of hope for peace in the Middle East, in \u003ci\u003eWe Just Want To Live Here.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Profoundly moving....The conflict between Jews and Arabs has been described in countless books and argued in unending polemics, but here, in the letters between these two eighteen-year-old women, an Arab and a Jew, is the heartbreaking essence of the quarrel.... In these letters (an idea brilliantly conceived and carried through by Sylke Tempel) Amal and Odelia educate each other..... This is the book for anyone who wants to feel and understand the emotions on both sides. It will become a classic.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Arthur Hertzberg, author of\u003ci\u003e A Jew in America: My Life and a People's Struggle for Identity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmal Rifa'i\u003c\/b\u003e, an eighteen-year-old Palestinian, plans to study special education in an Israeli college. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOdelia Ainbinder\u003c\/b\u003e, an eighteen-year-old Israeli, has started a year of community service with a socialist-Zionist movement. She will soon begin her mandatory military service. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSylke Tempel\u003c\/b\u003e, is a Middle East correspondent reporting from Israel. She teaches at the Berlin branch of Stanford University.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e We Just Want to Live Here\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 6.7\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48827235205368,"sku":"9780312318949","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/4LT40X4dXC9780312318949.webp?v=1780743031","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/we-just-want-to-live-here-a-palestinian-teenager-an-israeli-teenager-an-unlikely-friendship-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}