Keeping the Dream Alive: My Quest for Peace and Justice Ahwal Terry
Keeping the Dream Alive: My Quest for Peace and Justice Ahwal Terry In 1969, Israeli soldiers burst into Terry Ahwal's home while she and her family were eating breakfast. Her mother's shouting and…
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Keeping the Dream Alive: My Quest for Peace and Justice Ahwal Terry
In 1969, Israeli soldiers burst into Terry Ahwal's home while she and her family were eating breakfast. Her mother's shouting and pleading also are seared in Terry's memory. More than fifty years later, she still vividly sees her father's arms up in the air while young soldiers kicked him, hit him, and beat him with their automatic weapons.
It details her years growing up as a Palestinian Catholic under Israeli occupation, her reluctant immigration to the United States as a teenager, and her daily battles in becoming a Palestinian American who cares deeply about both her homeland and her adopted country.As Terry has ascended professional and political life in And she still has visions of her and her sister howling from terror as they watched their father dragged into the street.Keeping the Dream Alive: One Woman's Quest for Justice is Terry Ahwal's story.