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Once an Arafat Man: The True Story of How a PLO Sniper Found a New Life

1 rating: 5.0

A book by Dean Merrill Tass Saada

At age 17, Tass Saada was carrying a high-powered Simonov rifle. He had run away from home to become a PLO sniper and chauffeur for Yasser Arafa. His experience growing up as a Palestinian refugee in Saudi Arabia had taught him to hate. Like many Palestinians, … see full wiki

Tags: Book, Biographies, Biographies & Memoirs

Author: Tass Saada, Dean Merrill

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers,2008

Date Published: Oct. 2008

ISBN: 9781414323619

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Well-written, interesting memoir

Sep 21, 2010

by GenreReviewer
posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

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"Once an Arafat Man" is a well-written memoir about a man who was born a Muslim in Palestine in 1951, who grew up hating Jews, killed both Jews and Christians, but then later became a Christian and worked to bring reconciliation between Arabs and Jews. It's a fast-paced story that kept my interest from beginning to end.

He described how his family became refugees, why they were moved to Saudi Arabia, what life was like there for Palestinan refugees, how he learned to hate Jews, how he met Yasser Arafa and later came to join the PLO, what he did in the PLO, how his parents tricked him to get him out of the PLO, why he went to America and what he did there, how and why he converted to Christianity, how his family reacted to his conversion, and how he made peace with his family as well as with Jews. Having read quite a bit on the conflict in the Middle East, I thought he did a good job showing both sides of the issue, though he didn't go in-depth.

Overall, I'd highly recommend this interesting and well-written book to those who are interested in the Jew-Arab conflict in the Middle East or to those interested in what it's like for a Muslim to convert to another religion.

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