Edinburgh Book Festival: Abdel Bari Atwan & Ghada Karmi
Riveting and illuminating accounts of Palestinian childhoods and dislocation. Newspaper editor Adbel Bari Atwan recounts his journey from Palestinian refugee camps to becoming one of the foremost commentators on the Middle East. Ghada Karmi remembers her childhood in Palestine, the flight to Britain in 1948, and adapting to a Western lifestyle in Golders Green.