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Produkt Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir (Abu Sitta Salman)(Paperback) označuje EAN kód 9789774168338.
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Salman Abu Sitta was just ten years old when the Nakba-the mass expulsion of Palestinians in 1948-happened, forcing him from his home near Beersheba. Like many Palestinians of his generation, this traumatic loss and his enduring desire to return would be the defining features of his life from that
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