please find a PDF file reproducing the cover page and the Introduction to my book LETTERS FROM PALESTINE.
I have spent many summers working in a refugee camp (Aida Camp in Bethlehem) in the West Bank, and I used to send emails to my children describing my experience. These emails slowly acquired a life of their own, mixing chronicles and reflections, and the heart-rending humiliations inflicted on the Palestinian people by Israel’s ruthless occupation of their homeland were brought into sharp relief.
I was encouraged to transform this correspondence into a book. I hope you can forward this email to the members of your organization. The purchase of this book would not benefit me: all the royalties are redirected to the Lajee Center of Aida Camp. It is a way to finance their activities: they are doing a wonderful work in a terrible environment and their presence is a light of hope chasing away the shadows of desperation.
Thank you for what you can do
Fabrizio Galimberti
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1-4196-4950-7
From the review by New York Times best-selling author Ellen Tanner Marsh:
<One of the great tragedies of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is that there are no real winners on either side. While much news is focused on Hamas and the actions of terrorists, not enough attention targets the desperate struggle of the Palestinian people who feel they are living in exile. Since August 2003, economist and author Fabrizio Galimberti spent time volunteering in a Palestinian refugee camp. While there, he chronicled his experiences, e-mailing them home to his grown children, as if he were "watching history through a keyhole." And now, at their urging, he has collected these experiences into a shocking, stirring, and heartbreaking book.
Through Galimberti's eyes, we see and hear and experience the grief, joy and unquenchable life force that is Palestine...
All royalties from his work will be donated to the Lajee Center of Aida Camp in Bethlehem. Meanwhile, Letters From Palestine is a brave and moving historical record of a people living with incessant flare-ups of violence and with the terrible slow trampling of their spirit.>