{"product_id":"notes-from-ramallah-1939-9780944350591","title":"Notes from Ramallah  1939","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"From the first letter written on board the ship Rex  Notes from Ramallah  1939 shows an adventurous young American Quaker woman headed for the Arab world and neighboring lands before World War II. Woven throughout the letters and journal entries from Nancy Parker McDowells year as a teacher at Ramallah Friends Girls School are images of the Palestinian people under British occupation. From accounts of pulling students out of the line of gunfire to stories of teaching baseball to her students  her notes reveal the full breadth of the Palestinian culture: the bustle of the teeming marketplace  the beauty of Ramallah embroidery  and the generous neighbor who loans her donkey to everybody and lets anyone drink from her well. And  in the midst of the danger in Palestine and in prewar Europe  Parker McDowell enters political discussions with Arabs and soldiers across the Middle East and in Europe  and she and her friends manage adventures in Jerusalem  Syria  Transjordania (where she rides with royalty in a bulletproof car)  Cairo (where she climbs one of the pyramids)  Germany  and France. This passionate and humorous memoir is a study in contrasts: an adventurous youth who still longs for home  a war-torn but beautiful land  and a war-weary yet determined people.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67932122415157,"sku":"ByrdShop_0944350593","price":451.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780944350591.jpg?v=1794219549","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/notes-from-ramallah-1939-9780944350591","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}