An American in Palestine: A Love Story. Memoir and Insights from Christa Bruhn

About this episode

Christa Bruhn shares her lifelong engagement with Palestine and her experiences living in Gaza.

Send us Fan Mail Christa Bruhn was my student back in the 1980s. I remember very well the first time I met her. She told me she had lived for a semester in Gaza. I have been to Gaza twice and did not consider it a place for a young American woman to be spending a semester. But Christa was never able to get Palestine out of her soul. This is her own story of her life-long engagement with a land and a people whose survival is not guaranteed. In time she fell...

People in this episode

Host: Ronald Stockton

Guest: Christa Bruhn

Topics covered

• memoir
• Palestine
• personal story
• cultural engagement
• survival

Keywords

• Christa Bruhn
• Palestine
• Gaza
• memoir
• American in Palestine

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Palestine, Gaza

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