Shafeeq ghabra biography books

Arevolutionary thinker and an inspiration to many, Shafeeq Ghabra is one of the few people in the world who has gone from freedom fighter to professor.

Born into the post-Nakba generation, his story – of being raised as a Kuwaiti to parents that were originally Palestinian – is one of diasporic heartache and exile.

This study is an investigation of the strategies of survival and adaptation employed by a displaced population; the Palestinians in Kuwait.

This study is an investigation of the strategies of survival and adaptation employed by a displaced population; the Palestinians in Kuwait.

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Shafeeq N. Ghabra, Most popular, Palestinians In Kuwait: The Family And The Politics Of Survival, out of 5 stars 2, out of 5 stars.

Haneen Shafeeq Ghabra obtained her PhD in communication studies from the University of Denver and is currently Assistant Professor at Kuwait University's Department of Mass Communication.

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His father Dr. Nazem Ghabra was a highly successful cardiologist in Haifa, Palestine before arriving in Kuwait in 1952. He later became the personal cardiologist to the emir and crown prince of Kuwait. When Ghabra and his father became full citizens of Kuwait, there was a sense that the Palestinian Naqba’s wounds would never heal.

 

Ghabra sought to heal these wounds through his activism during high school in Kuwait and throughout his undergraduate studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, 1971–1975.

He never spoke about his military experience until he published his memoir An Unsafe Life (in Arabic) in 2012 with Saqi Books.

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