Salman Abu Sitta

Salman Abu Sitta

Salman Abu Sitta was born in 1937 in Ma‘in Abu Sitta, in the Beersheba district of mandate Palestine. An engineer by profession, he is best known for his cartographic work on Palestine and his work on the Palestinian Right of Return. He is the author of six books and over 300 articles and papers on Palestine, including The Atlas of Palestine, 1917–1966 (2010). He is the founder and president of the Palestine Land Society

Books

    Mapping My Return: A Palestinian memoir

    Mapping My Return: A Palestinian memoir

    Author(s):

    Salman Abu Sitta

    Publisher:

    The American University in Cairo Press
    In this rich and moving memoir, Abu Sitta draws on oral histories and personal recollections to vividly evoke the vanished world of his family and home from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the British withdrawal from Palestine and...

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