The experience brought back all her memories of fear during the Six-Day War. She, along with everyone else on the bus, was transferred to a detention center. Stopped at a check point run by Israeli soldiers, Barakat was told by a soldier that her city was destroyed. delegate to the third United Nations World Conference for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.īarakat's memoir begins in 1981 when, at age seventeen, she was returning home to Ramallah by bus after visiting her post-office box in a neighboring town. She taught language ethics at Stephens College, and founded Write Your Life seminars "because the society needs everyone's voice and everyone's story," as she told SATA. She then studied journalism and human development at the University of Missouri-Columbia and began writing what would become her memoir for young adults, Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood. My life's goal is to create bridges across the fear to new possibilities." In 1986, Barakat moved to New York City to work as an intern at the Nation magazine. "Ever since the Six-Day War I have had a huge amount of fear that separated me from my mind and my memory, from all sorts of things in me," the author later explained to interviewer Robert Hirschfield for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
After the war ended, the Barakat family returned to Ramallah and lived under the Israeli occupation. At age three, she fled with her family from their home in the Palestinian city of Ramallah to Jordan to escape the terror of the Six-Day War. Ibtisam Barakat has long lived under the shadow of war. Essays included in What a Song Can Do, edited by Jennifer Armstrong, Knopf (New York, NY), 2004, and in periodicals and online sites. Poetry included in anthologies such as The Flag of Childhood, edited by Naomi Shihab-Nye, Aladdin ( New York, NY), 2002, and online. Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood, Farrar, Straus & Giroux ( New York, NY), 2007. Awards, HonorsĪmerican Library Association Notable Book designation, National Council of Social Studies/Children's Book Council Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies designation, and Middle East Outreach Council Best Literature Award, all 2007, all for Tasting the Sky. Stephens College, instructor of language ethics founder and leader of Write Your Life seminars. delegate to third United Nations World Conference for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Memoirist, poet, songwriter, speaker, journalist, Mideast scholar, educator, photographer, and translator. Hobbies and other interests: Reading, especially works by Nobel Prize winners in literature photography languages music.
Education: Birzeit University, degree ( English literature) University of Missouri-Columbia, M.A. Jerusalem, Palestine immigrated to United States June 9, 1986.
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