Which former Middle East hostage co-wrote the book 'Some Other Rainbow'?
"Some Other Rainbow Some Other Rainbow is a joint memoir written by John McCarthy and Jill Morrell and first published by Bantam Press in 1993. It deals in separate chapters with the individual and parallel experiences of McCarthy and Morrell, during McCarthy's captivity in the Lebanon, which lasted from 17 April 1986 until 8 August 1991. While McCarthy was held by Hezbollah, along with Irish hostage Brian Keenan, he was unaware of the campaign being run by Morrell to keep his name in the public eye and help secure his release; only after his release did he discover that she"
"August 1991. He shared a cell with the Irish hostage Brian Keenan for several years. While a prisoner, he learned that his girlfriend, Jill Morrell, was actively campaigning for his release, launching a group called ""Friends of John McCarthy"". By the time of McCarthy's release, his mother Sheila had died of cancer, unaware of his fate. Following his release, he co-authored, with Jill Morrell, a memoir of his years in captivity, entitled ""Some Other Rainbow"". Their relationship ended four years later, and he later married Anna Ottewill, a photographer, and they have a daughter. In 1995 John McCarthy sailed around"
"Susan Abulhawa Susan Abulhawa (, born June 3, 1970) is a Palestinian American writer and political activist. She is the author of a novel, ""Mornings in Jenin"" (2010) and the founder of a non-governmental organization, Playgrounds for Palestine. She lives in Yardley, Pennsylvania. Her second novel, ""The Blue Between Sky And Water"", was sold in 19 languages before its release. It was published in the UK on June 4, 2015, and in the US on September 1, 2015. Abulhawa's parents, born in At-Tur in Jerusalem, were refugees of the 1967 war. Her father, according to one account, ""was expelled at"
"Rainbow"" was published. ""Ayesha's Rainbow"" is a children's novel, which tells the story of a seven-year-old Bangladeshi girl, growing up in London's East End, who befriends an elderly, white neighbour. The story explores racism, prejudice and stereotyping that young Muslims experience in Britain. It is partly autobiographical, based on Khan's own experiences growing up in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s, and working as a community safety officer in the Isle of Dogs when British National Party candidate, Derek Beackon, was elected as a councillor in September 1993. Khan was awarded a place on the Royal Literary Fund Mentoring Scheme"
"The Other Side of Deception The Other Side of Deception is a follow-up to the best-selling nonfiction book ""By Way of Deception"" by Victor Ostrovsky, a former Mossad agent with operational knowledge. It contains a bibliography of newspaper articles in support of original book. The book concerns the concept of a Mossad divide and conquer strategy, pitting secular Arabs against Islamist Arabs and between Arab Muslims and Non-Arab Muslims such as between Iran and Iraq. The Mossad assists Hamas in destroying the PLO and creates a civil war between the secular and Islamist factions of the Palestinians. The book was"
"rated it 6/10 and said, ""...if you're looking for an upfront and forthright companion to ""Brick Lane"", then you cannot go far wrong by reading ""Rainbow Hands""."" Ayesha's Rainbow Ayesha's Rainbow is a 2006 children's novel written by Rabina Khan about a young Bangladeshi girl who befriends an elderly white neighbour despite escalating racism around them. The Bangladeshi Ali family move next door to the elderly, white Mrs. Peters in London's East End. They have purchased a flat that belonged to Mrs. Peters' recently deceased friend Vera. Mrs. Peters has lived in the East End all her life; she is"
"do ""medical writing for journals and drug companies."" She compares Israel to apartheid South Africa. In 2013, Abulhawa declined an invitation from ""Al Jazeera"" to participate in a discussion about the Israel-Palestine issue with several Israelis, including some who were highly critical of Israeli policy. Susan Abulhawa Susan Abulhawa (, born June 3, 1970) is a Palestinian American writer and political activist. She is the author of a novel, ""Mornings in Jenin"" (2010) and the founder of a non-governmental organization, Playgrounds for Palestine. She lives in Yardley, Pennsylvania. Her second novel, ""The Blue Between Sky And Water"", was sold in"
"East Divide"" (New York: Knopf, 2006), describes Goldberg's experiences in Israel working at the Ketziot military prison camp as well as his dialogue with Rafiq, a prisoner whom Goldberg would later befriend in Washington, DC. ""The New York Times"", ""The Washington Post"", and the ""Los Angeles Times"" named it one of the best books of 2006. The ""Los Angeles Times"" critic wrote, ""Realization of the humanity of the ‘other’ is at the heart of ""New Yorker"" magazine correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg's sharply observed and beautifully written memoir."" ""The New York Times"" critic wrote, ""Mr. Goldberg, a talented and ambitious writer for"
"and for the BBC since 1995. In 1992 she filmed Osama bin Laden's training camps in Sudan. She also provided professional support on four of the Steps for the Future films in 2001. The documentary, ""The House of Saud"", appeared on the BBC in 2004 and on PBS in 2005. Her most recent documentary, 'Behind the Rainbow', was screened during the 53rd BFI London Film Festival in 2009. She also worked with Ahron Bregman, an Israeli historian, on ""The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs"" in 1998. Jihan El-Tahri Jihan El-Tahri (; born in Beirut, Lebanon) is a writer,"
"Ayesha's Rainbow Ayesha's Rainbow is a 2006 children's novel written by Rabina Khan about a young Bangladeshi girl who befriends an elderly white neighbour despite escalating racism around them. The Bangladeshi Ali family move next door to the elderly, white Mrs. Peters in London's East End. They have purchased a flat that belonged to Mrs. Peters' recently deceased friend Vera. Mrs. Peters has lived in the East End all her life; she is lonely and averse to change, especially towards accepting people of a different culture. Mrs. Peters is feeling more lonely of late but cannot bring herself to greet"
"and politics, Soueif also writes about Palestinians in her fiction and non-fiction. A shorter version of ""Under the Gun: A Palestinian Journey"" was originally published in ""The Guardian"" and then printed in full in Soueif's recent collection of essays, ""Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground"" (2004) and she wrote the introduction to the NYRB's reprint of Jean Genet's ""Prisoner of Love"". In 2008 she initiated the first Palestine Festival of Literature, of which she is the Founding Chair. Soueif is also a cultural and political commentator for the ""Guardian"" newspaper and she has been reporting on the Egyptian revolution. In"
"and the Olive Branch by the British journalist David Hirst (journalist), which tells the story of the Palestinian cause, and The Roaring Nineties by the American economist Joseph Stiglitz, which tells the story of the short-lived boom in the United States during the second half of the 1990s. He also translated Austerity (book) by the British economist Mark Blyth, which tells the story of the Financial crisis of 2007–08. He has other writings, research and translations. Abdel-Rahman Ayas Abdel-Rahman Ayas (born 22 February 1968 in Beirut) is a Lebanese researcher, writer, journalist and translator. He finished elementary studies at the"
"violence reduction organizations in the West Bank and Gaza, including Christian Peacemaker Teams) and with nonviolent peace and nonviolent justice organizations in the U.S. In April 2009 he and his wife were recognized by the Dalai Lama as one of 2009's ""Unsung Heroes of Compassion"". Jerry Levin (journalist) Jerry Levin is a former CNN network journalist. He writes on nonviolence, with an emphasis on the Middle East and in particular Palestine and Israel. In 1984 he was kidnapped and held hostage by Hezbollah. He escaped after eleven and a half months in captivity due to the nonviolent behind the scene"
"Libyan plane over the Sinai and the Italian plane (thought to carry uranium) in 1980, killing eighty-one people. There is no way that they'd do this"". The Other Side of Deception The Other Side of Deception is a follow-up to the best-selling nonfiction book ""By Way of Deception"" by Victor Ostrovsky, a former Mossad agent with operational knowledge. It contains a bibliography of newspaper articles in support of original book. The book concerns the concept of a Mossad divide and conquer strategy, pitting secular Arabs against Islamist Arabs and between Arab Muslims and Non-Arab Muslims such as between Iran and"
"A Sliver of Light A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran is a 2014 memoir by Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Eamon Dolan. It discusses the 2009–11 detention of American hikers by Iran. The book uses the first-person narrative and switches between the points of view of Bauer, Fattal, and Shourd. The book ends with the authors, after their release, adjusting to the free world and discussing the Guantanamo Bay detention center, Israel, and regime change. ""Publishers Weekly"" stated that the book has ""Moments of humor and insight"" and that the ""voices"""
"in the ""New York Times Book Review"", the ""Washington Post"", and the ""Boston Globe"". The accuracy of some events and the chronology in ""A Long Way Gone"" have been called into question, particularly the claim that Beah became a child soldier in 1993, rather than in 1995. Beah has defended his account. Ishmael Beah Ishmael Beah (born 23 November 1980) is a Sierra Leonean author and human rights activist who rose to fame with his acclaimed memoir, ""A Long Way Gone"". His most recent novel, ""Radiance of Tomorrow"", was published in January 2014. In 1991, the Sierra Leone Civil War"
"of these young writers [featured in the anthology] possess more clarity than all the pundits combined."" The book received endorsements from Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who wrote the anthology's foreword. Sohrab Ahmari Sohrab Ahmari is a senior writer at ""Commentary"" magazine. Previously he spent five years as an editor and columnist with ""The Wall Street Journal"" opinion pages in London and New York. He co-edited the 2012 book ""Arab Spring Dreams"", an anthology of essays by young Mideast dissidents. Ahmari's book, ""The New Philistines"", a polemic on how identity politics are corrupting"
"between a young Bangladeshi girl and her white elderly neighbour, and the racism, prejudice and stereotyping that young Muslims experience in Britain. The story is partly autobiographical, based on Khan's own experiences growing up in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s and as a Community Safety Officer in East London's Isle of Dogs, during a time when racist right wing candidate, Derek Beackon, was elected as a councillor in September 1993. Khan originally self-published ""Ayesha's Rainbow"" through Authorsonline. It was later launched by Fore-Word Press at Borders in Oxford Street, London in an event hosted by broadcast journalist Rageh Omaar"
"young girl whose father is arrested because of his political activities, and a Palestinian guerrilla fighter captured by the Israeli forces. ""Pillars of Salt"", her second novel, was published by Quartet Books in 1996, and has been translated into German, Danish, Dutch, Romanian and Bulgarian. Set in colonial and postcolonial Jordan, according to one critic, the novel ‘stands between East and West, and combines Arabic traditional storytelling with postmodern narrative tricks’. There is a strong feminist message concerning two Arab women, one a Bedouin, the other from the town, incarcerated in an asylum through the actions of their brother and"
"Hezbollah against the background of Lebanese history from 1970 to 1997. Her second book, ""The Flying Carpet to Baghdad: One Woman's Fight for Two Orphans of War"", was published in 2009. The book chronicles her efforts to help two girls during the Iraq War. In May 2015, ""NOW News"", a defunct Lebanon-based news website, published a trove of leaked emails from the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad. The leaked emails revealed that she had contacted and sought to protect George Chaoui, an EU sanctioned Christian Syrian citizen, and alleged member of the Syrian Electronic Army. Additional emails have noted"
"other nominees included the ""White Helmets"" of the Syrian Conflict (who received several editorial endorsements from western newspapers); representative ""Greek islanders"", particularly those from Lesbos, for their response to the related refugee crisis; Nadia Murad for her work in refugee advocacy; and Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege for work with victims of rape. Still further nominations included Svetlana Gannushkina, Ernest Moniz and Ali Akbar Salehi, and Edward Snowden. Gannushkina and Syrian Civil Defense had been jointly awarded the 2016 Right Livelihood Award in the weeks prior. Six other Colombians, five of them victims of the Colombian armed conflict, had also been"
"be a catalyst for progressive change. Other works include ""The Journey of Little Gandhi,"" about a rural immigrant to Beirut who lives through the events of the civil war, and ""Gate of the Sun"" (2000). ""Gate of the Sun"" is an epic re-telling of the life of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon since the 1948 Palestinian exodus, which also addresses the ideas of memory, truth, and storytelling. The book was adapted as a film of the same name by Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallah. In an interview by the Israeli mainstream daily ""Yediot Aharonot,"" after the publication of the Hebrew translation of"
"The Other Hand The Other Hand, also known as Little Bee, is a 2008 novel by British author Chris Cleave. It is a dual narrative story about a Nigerian asylum-seeker and a British magazine editor, who meet during the oil conflict in the Niger Delta, and are re-united in England several years later. Cleave, inspired as a university student by his temporary employment in an asylum detention centre, wrote the book in an attempt to humanise the plight of asylum-seekers in Britain. The novel examines the treatment of refugees by the asylum system, as well as issues of British colonialism,"
"Nations. Afterwards he returned to Egypt, where he continues to reside. East of the Palms (1985) (شرق النخيل) His first novel was published in serialized form. Qalat Duha (1985) Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery (1991) (خالتي صفية والدير) His third novel, set in Upper Egypt, concerns a blood feud as a result of which a young Muslim man, fleeing vengeance, finds sanctuary in a Coptic monastery. Love in Exile (1995) (الحب في المنفى) His fourth novel deals with the massacre of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982. The Point of Light (2001) Sunset Oasis"
"of Emil Habibi. The Israeli is not only the policeman or the occupier, he is the ""other,"" who also has a human experience, and we need to read this experience. Our reading of their experience is a mirror to our reading of the Palestinian experience."" Khoury's novel, ""Yalo"" (2002, and translated into English in 2008 for US publication by American Peter Theroux), depicted a former militiaman accused of crimes during Lebanon's civil war. He described the use of torture in the Lebanese judicial system. The title refers to the name of a Palestinian Arab village that was destroyed and in"
"their release in September 2011. They subsequently co-authored a memoir of their experience (""A Sliver of Light""), as well as the cover story (""Kidnapped by Iran"") for the March-April 2014 issue of ""Mother Jones"" magazine. Bauer has worked as a foreign correspondent, reporting from Iraq, Sudan, Chad, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen. His work has appeared in ""The Nation,"" ""Salon.com,"" the ""Los Angeles Times,"" and the ""Christian Science Monitor"". In 2015 he worked as an undercover journalist for ""Mother Jones"" while employed for six months as a prison guard at the Winn Correctional Center, a private prison in Winn Parish, Louisiana"
"2006 Lebanon War, Sayigh and her family were evacuated from their home in Beirut to Cyprus. She is the author of ""Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries; A People’s History"" (1979, Zed Books) and ""Too Many Enemies: The Palestinian Experience in Lebanon"" (1993, Zed Books). Rosemary Sayigh Rosemary Sayigh (born 1935 in Birmingham, United Kingdom) is a British-born journalist and scholar of Middle Eastern history. Sayigh is known for her works on the Palestinian people, particularly refugees from the Nakba who fled to Lebanon. Her son is fellow scholar Yezid Sayigh, after marrying Yusef Sayigh in 1953. She earned her MA"
"documents her experiences after hearing the about the death of her family, entitled Never Ask Me About Peace Again. In 2016, she published in french a book co-writing with Sélim Nassib, 'L'insoumise de Gaza', translated in english in 2018 by Mike Mitchell, 'A Rebel in Gaza: Behind the Lines of the Arab Spring, One Woman’s Story'. Asma al-Ghul Asma al-Ghul (also ""Al Ghoul"", ""Alghoul"" ) is a young secular Palestinian feminist journalist who writes for the Ramallah-based newspaper Al-Ayyam, chronicling what she calls “the corruption of Fatah and the terrorism of Hamas.” Al-Ayyam is sometimes banned in Gaza by Hamas."
"political, social, and religious dimensions of their strife for human rights and self-fulfillment. Her most recent novel ""Hymns of Temptation"" has been nominated for the 2016 Arabic Booker Prize. Laila al-Atrash Laila al-Atrash is a Palestinian/Jordanian writer and journalist. She is the author of half a dozen novels, one of which (""A Woman of Five Seasons"") was translated into English by Nura Nuwayhid Halwani and Christopher Tingley. Atrash is also noted for her journalism, especially her documentaries on leading figures of Arabic culture. She serves as the President of PEN Jordan. She started her media career as a journalist and"
"nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor and BAFTA Award winner Thandie Newton. Half of a Yellow Sun Half of a Yellow Sun is a novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Published in 2006 by Knopf/Anchor, the novel tells the story of the Biafran War through the perspective of the characters Olanna, Ugwu, and Richard. The novel takes place in Nigeria prior to and during the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70). The effect of the war is shown through the dynamic relationships of five people's lives including twin daughters of an influential businessman, a professor, a British citizen, and a houseboy. After Biafra's declaration"
"degree in Law and a Diploma in French. Her published works include: “Sunrise from the West” (a novel, 1988); “A Woman of Five Seasons” (a novel, 1990); “A Day Like Any Other” (a collection of short stories, 1991); “Two Nights and the Shadow of a Woman” (a novel, 1997); “The Neighing of Distances” (a novel, 1999); “Illusive Anchors” (a novel, 2005); and ""Women at Crossroads"" (travel memoirs 2009), ""Desires of that Autumn"" (a novel, 2010) Critics have endorsed and heralded her bold and creative role in portraying the distinct context of the experience of Arab women and in articulating the"
"to another camp leads to violence and a wholesale slaughter by South African mercenary security forces (a reference to historical events in ""District Six"", Cape Town, a mostly Coloured neighborhood subjected to forced segregation during the apartheid years). The parallels to apartheid South Africa are obvious but not explicitly remarked on in the film. The marches by students in Soweto are briefly mentioned in Linzi Glass' novel, ""Ruby Red"", which was nominated for the Carnegie Medal in 2008. Soweto is also mentioned in Sheila Gordon's novel, ""Waiting for the Rain"". The main protagonist from the Jonas Jonasson Novel ""The Girl"
"Ishmael Beah Ishmael Beah (born 23 November 1980) is a Sierra Leonean author and human rights activist who rose to fame with his acclaimed memoir, ""A Long Way Gone"". His most recent novel, ""Radiance of Tomorrow"", was published in January 2014. In 1991, the Sierra Leone Civil War started. Rebels invaded Beah's hometown, Mogbwemo, located in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone, and he was forced to flee. Separated from his family, he spent months wandering south with a group of other boys. At the age of 12, he was forced to become a child soldier. According to Beah's account,"