An unsentimental journey through Palestine

‘Ghada Karmi’s return to Palestine after decades of exile, which are recounted in her first memoir, In Search of Fatima, is not a sentimental one.

Return focuses on Karmi’s time in Ramallah in the mid-2000s, when she joined a United Nations program that brought Palestinians living in exile to serve as experts with the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank city.

Karmi’s time there is fraught with frustration as petty bureaucrats run their ministries like little fiefdoms. She finds the typical trappings of statehood — buildings, titles and salaries paid by donor states — but not a government with actual sovereignty.’

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