![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. The tone of the book is literary, layered, and infused with the underlying belief in the “universality of our human longings - regardless of ethnicity, religion or politics.” Read 'Ladies of the Dance' by May Mansoor Munn available from Rakuten Kobo. Ladies of the Dance - Kindle edition by Mansoor Munn, May. Read 'Ladies of the Dance' by May Mansoor Munn available from Rakuten Kobo. ![]() Prior to the Six-Day War in, Alya Habeeb, a Muslim-Christian teacher, and the radio personality Majed Alami, dance with international. ![]() The title comes from a scene near the beginning in which Alya dances rather freely - and tipsily - in the courtyard of the hotel during the weekly dances which are controversial for the older members of her family. Ladies of the Dance - Kindle edition by Mansoor Munn, May. Alya is modern in her dress and attitudes, while those around her are a mix of the traditional and the contemporary. ![]() The story is a tapestry of scenes and characters - Israelis, Palestinians, British, American-evoking a world of sounds, sights, smells, how it feels to walk down a street in Jerusalem, the mixture of private and political concerns as the tension builds in the days leading up to the Six Day War. Set in 1967, Ladies of the Dancefollows the weaving path of Alya, a 28-year-old woman who manages her family’s hotel, the Semiaramis, in Beit Nuba, a Palestinian town under Jordanian rule. ![]()
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