Teen Voices from the Holy Land

By Mahmoud Watad and Leonard Grob

""This is a book about hope. We really can have peace in the Middle East one day. Daniel says it best: 'If children had been in charge of their countries, things would not have happened the way they did. Children know how to get along with one another despite everything.' As we pass our world along to the next generation, I know they will do better than we have in the peacemakng process." HOWARD DEAN Former Governor of Vermont "Congratulations to Professors Watad and Grob for compiling the articulate Teen Voices from the Holy Land. May the decision-makers hear them We are inspired by the honesty and the promise of youth. These Israeli and Palestinian teenagers share with us a collective dream of human beings resolving our differences, no matter how difficult, in a civilized manner consistent with the meaning of Holy Land." LINCOLN CHAFEE Former US Senator from Rhode Island

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591025354
• ISBN13: 9781591025351
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

A top pick for any spiritual collection

TEEN VOICES FROM THE HOLY LAND: WHO AM I TO YOU offers up an intriguing survey by author who asked young Palestinians and Israelis to describe their lives and dreams for the future. Their words offer insights into not only their lives and experiences but their perceptions of past, present and future, making this a top pick for any spiritual collection or library strong in Middle East issues.

Important and deeply moving book

Sad, amusing, wise, naive, and touching, these anecdotes, observations, and speculations by Jewish and Arab teenagers will long reverberate in the mind of the reader. Each account reflects the mind and temper of a thoughtful, self-aware individual poised between the innocent hopefulness of childhood and an adult's growing consciousness of the complexity of life and the history it brings. For Jews and Arabs living in the Holy Land, that history has, for a hundred years, been particularly burdensome. For the reader, news and events emerging from that area will likely have the joy and the weight of new names and faces inextricably attached to it.