My Palestine
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Mohammad Tarbush was born in British Mandate Palestine in 1948. As an infant, he and his family were forced to evacuate their
village together with its entire population after the Zionist victory that led to the establishment of the State of Israel. As landless
refugees in the West Bank the family sank into poverty. When, as a teenager, Tarbush left home one day under the pretext of visiting relatives in Jordan, he in fact set off on a year-long hitchhiking journey to Europe, where he would eventually become a highly successful international banker and a key behind-the-scenes promoter of the Palestinian cause. My Palestine is a poignant personal memoir and an incisive political and economic commentary on the tumultuous events that have shaped the history of Palestine, Israel and the modern Middle East.
MOHAMMAD TARBUSH was born in Beit Nattif, near Jerusalem. After starting his education in a refugee camp in Jericho
he continued in England, completing a doctoral degree at the University of Oxford. He went on to become a managing
director at Deutsche Bank, then at UBS. He wrote extensively on Palestine in, among others, the International Herald
Tribune, the Guardian and the Financial Times, and for over thirty years he was the chairman of the board of trustees
at United Palestinian Appeal, a nonprofit, non-political charity based in Washington, D.C.