{"id":1352,"date":"2016-01-08T12:28:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T19:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2016-01-16T12:29:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T19:29:34","slug":"reading-the-middle-east-by-n-s-morris-for-the-los-angeles-review-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"Reading the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LARB_bk_480x172.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1240\" alt=\"LARB_bk_480x172\" src=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LARB_bk_480x172.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LARB_bk_480x172.jpg 480w, https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LARB_bk_480x172-300x107.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/morris-middle-east-243x366.png\"><br class=\"Apple-interchange-newline\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>by N.S. Morris\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"About Sandy Tolan\" href=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?page_id=6\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sandy Tolan<\/strong><\/a>, a radio journalist and writer of research-based creative nonfiction, opens his\u00a0<a title=\"About Sandy\u2019s new book\" href=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?page_id=367\"><strong>Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land<\/strong><\/a> with a caveat.<a href=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/morris-middle-east-243x366.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1356 alignleft\" style=\"border: 5px solid black; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"morris-middle-east-243x366\" src=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/morris-middle-east-243x366.png\" width=\"243\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/morris-middle-east-243x366.png 243w, https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/morris-middle-east-243x366-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0His narrative of a former stone-throwing Palestinian youth who grew up to found a music conservatory in the West Bank city of Ramallah is \u201cinherently about one people\u2019s tragedies,\u201d he writes. \u201cReaders should not expect the traditional journalistic approach \u2014 that is, the parallel narratives of Palestinians and Israelis.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/essay\/reading-the-middle-east\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read the full review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by N.S. Morris\u00a0 Sandy Tolan, a radio journalist and writer of research-based creative nonfiction, opens his\u00a0Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land with a caveat.\u00a0His narrative of a former stone-throwing Palestinian youth who grew up to found a music conservatory in the West Bank city of Ramallah is \u201cinherently about <a href=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=1352#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}