Characters from 2002 Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Amal Abu al-Jamiyya - This person is a cute, freckle-faced Palestinian girl whom Shipler interviewed about the views on Jews that she had picked up in the Dheisheh camp.

Majdi and Suhbi Abu-Jumaa - These are two Palestinian terrorists, cousins, responsible for a 1984 attack on a commuter bus in the Gaza Strip. They were taken prisoner by Israeli commandos and tortured to death in captivity.

Albert Aghazarian - This person is an Armenian living in the Old City of Jerusalem, who considers himself by culture and affinity a Palestinian.

Jamil Ahmed -...
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