What’s a Nice Irish-American Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
Miami, FL, December 01, 2007 --(PR.com)-- Outskirts Press is pleased to bring you Third Intifada/Uprising: Nonviolent But with Words Sharper than a Two-Edged Sword: Memoirs of a Nice Irish-American Girl's Life in Occupied Territory. This exhilarating and inspiring new work by Eileen Fleming chronicles one woman’s odyssey of faith as she journeys to the Palestinian Territories in the wake of the September 11th attacks. In her memoir, Fleming writes:
“I had [a dream] a few weeks after that day we call 9/11. In my dream I had stood at the edge of a dried up pool where crumbling stone columns were overgrown with vines and weeds and scores of doves and pigeons nested and flew. To my right was a large shade tree, but to my left I saw a few square squat dwellings with large satellite dishes attached to them. I remembered thinking the moment I woke up from that dream what a strange place it was, but then I quickly forgot all about it. That is, until the afternoon of June 12, 2005, four years later, when I found myself standing at the edge of a dried up pool where crumbling stone columns were overgrown with vines and weeds and scores of doves and pigeons nested and flew. To my right was a large shade tree, but to my left I saw a few square squat dwellings with large satellite dishes attached to them. What a strange place I thought, how could it be that I had seen this scene in a dream a few weeks after that day we call 9/11?”
Fleming says she has been “impelled, compelled, and propelled” by her faith as a Christian to return time and again to the Occupied Palestinian Territories. There she has met with democratically elected members of Hamas, scores of Palestinian Christians and Muslims, and a few 21st-century prophets. “There have always been Christians who have never abandoned the true teachings of Christ,” Fleming says, “including the Quakers, Mennonites, and some Catholics and Protestants who have faithfully denounced violence and cared for the poor. There have also always been Jews, Muslims, atheists, anarchists, secularists, and others,” she continues, “who have lived lives that embody the message of Christ.” Such peace-loving people have been the inspiration for Third Intifada, and are the reason why a “nice Irish-American girl” would journey to the Occupied Territories.
The pages within this brave new work contain some of the interviews she conducted and describe Fleming’s experiences listening to Christians, Muslims, Jews, secularists, anarchists, Nobel Peace Prize Nominees, and the whistleblower of Israel’s underground WMD Program. Eileen Fleming is an author who dares to speak the truth and offer the hope of peace and reconciliation in a world often torn apart by violence. This fascinating portrait will open your eyes and heart, and you will look at the Middle East in a whole new light.
About the Author: Eileen Fleming is a social activist who seeks peace by pursing justice. Her essays and reports from the Occupied Palestinian Territories can be seen on the Web site WeAreWideAwake.org, of which she is the editor. She blogs for CrossLeft.org and is a correspondent for ThePeoplesVoice.org and OpEdNews.com. She is the author of Keep Hope Alive, an imaginative retelling of the memoirs of a 1948 refugee from the Upper Galilee. Proceeds from that book have gone to plant olive trees in peace in Israel Palestine.
Third Intifada/Uprising: Nonviolent But with Words Sharper than a Two-Edged Sword: Memoirs of a Nice Irish-American Girl's Life in Occupied Territory by Eileen Fleming
ISBN-10: 1432702548 / ISBN-13: 978-1432702540 / 6x6, 132 pages
Retail Price: US $10.95, CAN $13.95, UK £17.95
Availability: Baker & Taylor, Ingram, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com
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“I had [a dream] a few weeks after that day we call 9/11. In my dream I had stood at the edge of a dried up pool where crumbling stone columns were overgrown with vines and weeds and scores of doves and pigeons nested and flew. To my right was a large shade tree, but to my left I saw a few square squat dwellings with large satellite dishes attached to them. I remembered thinking the moment I woke up from that dream what a strange place it was, but then I quickly forgot all about it. That is, until the afternoon of June 12, 2005, four years later, when I found myself standing at the edge of a dried up pool where crumbling stone columns were overgrown with vines and weeds and scores of doves and pigeons nested and flew. To my right was a large shade tree, but to my left I saw a few square squat dwellings with large satellite dishes attached to them. What a strange place I thought, how could it be that I had seen this scene in a dream a few weeks after that day we call 9/11?”
Fleming says she has been “impelled, compelled, and propelled” by her faith as a Christian to return time and again to the Occupied Palestinian Territories. There she has met with democratically elected members of Hamas, scores of Palestinian Christians and Muslims, and a few 21st-century prophets. “There have always been Christians who have never abandoned the true teachings of Christ,” Fleming says, “including the Quakers, Mennonites, and some Catholics and Protestants who have faithfully denounced violence and cared for the poor. There have also always been Jews, Muslims, atheists, anarchists, secularists, and others,” she continues, “who have lived lives that embody the message of Christ.” Such peace-loving people have been the inspiration for Third Intifada, and are the reason why a “nice Irish-American girl” would journey to the Occupied Territories.
The pages within this brave new work contain some of the interviews she conducted and describe Fleming’s experiences listening to Christians, Muslims, Jews, secularists, anarchists, Nobel Peace Prize Nominees, and the whistleblower of Israel’s underground WMD Program. Eileen Fleming is an author who dares to speak the truth and offer the hope of peace and reconciliation in a world often torn apart by violence. This fascinating portrait will open your eyes and heart, and you will look at the Middle East in a whole new light.
About the Author: Eileen Fleming is a social activist who seeks peace by pursing justice. Her essays and reports from the Occupied Palestinian Territories can be seen on the Web site WeAreWideAwake.org, of which she is the editor. She blogs for CrossLeft.org and is a correspondent for ThePeoplesVoice.org and OpEdNews.com. She is the author of Keep Hope Alive, an imaginative retelling of the memoirs of a 1948 refugee from the Upper Galilee. Proceeds from that book have gone to plant olive trees in peace in Israel Palestine.
Third Intifada/Uprising: Nonviolent But with Words Sharper than a Two-Edged Sword: Memoirs of a Nice Irish-American Girl's Life in Occupied Territory by Eileen Fleming
ISBN-10: 1432702548 / ISBN-13: 978-1432702540 / 6x6, 132 pages
Retail Price: US $10.95, CAN $13.95, UK £17.95
Availability: Baker & Taylor, Ingram, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com
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