Of
the pen
Poems
Jerusalem
Olive Trees for Peace
Diplomatics
Personalities in Photos
Acknowledgements
Jerusalem Dead and Revived One Thousand Times
By Suhail Hani Daher Akel
Book 141 Pages, Year 2000
Back cover text
In these latitudes, it is unusual to find a book about Jerusalem-Al Quds written by a Qudsi Palestinian although it should not be so. Appealing to memory, the author interweaves the history of the oldest, most sacred and desired city with the suffering of his Palestinian people, which includes Jews, Christians and Muslims as an inseparable part.
The author, born in the Old City in Jerusalem, has been a refugee since youth. After 46 years, he managed to break his exile in 1995. This situation is a pathetic sign of the life carried out by the people pertaining to Jerusalem. These people are secular victims of those people who, over time, used the sacred texts and the religious symbols in order to capture and crucify the Holy City in name ones and others and alleging the practice of the divine mandate.
In this work, the reader – trapped in an agile reading which allows him to go round the history of Jerusalem up to these days – has the possibility of observe really tense and incredible situations, which would lead to practically irreconcilable postures. However, the strength of moderation, tolerance and balance imposes.
From the suffering, this work aims to reflection and to reconciliation in the city where arrived Abraham in order to be the father of nations, where Jesus Christ died and rose from the dead, and from whose rocks Mahoma raised to haven
