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Letter from Ramallah

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Raja Shehadeh
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Only someone living in the historically burdened holy land can understand what good fortune it is to live in a city free from holy weight. I have long thought how auspicious it was for Ramallah, a city founded only in the fifteenth century, to have escaped mention in the Holy Scriptures.

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Correspondents at large RAMALLAH
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PMLA , Volume 122 , Issue 1: Special Topics Cities , January 2007 , pp. 338 - 339
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2007