Children of catastrophe : journey from a Palestinian refugee camp to America /
Jamal Krayem Kanj.
- 1st ed.
- Reading, UK : Garnet, c2010.
- xxi, 208 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Introduction p. xiii 1 The Making of a Refugee p. 1 2 Life in the Camp p. 29 3 Revolution and Political Evolution p. 51 4 Israeli Military Raids p. 77 5 Camp Economy p. 99 6 Lebanese Civil War p. 113 7 Journey into a New Life p. 135 8 A New American Home and the Return to Palestine p. 159 9 The Destruction of Nahr el Bared Camp: The Unrecorded Story p. 183
Jamal Kanj recounts his story of being a refugee from Lebanon, discussing his childhood, when he became a member of the PLO and his eventual emgration to the United States as an engineer.