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The Hour of Sunlight

One Palestinian's Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker

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By Sami al Jundi

By Jen Marlowe

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Feb 1, 2011
Page Count
368 pages
Publisher
Bold Type Books
ISBN-13
9781568584485

As a teenager in Palestine, Sami al Jundi had one ambition: overthrowing Israeli occupation. With two friends, he began to build a bomb to use against the police. But when it exploded prematurely, killing one of his friends, al Jundi was caught and sentenced to ten years in prison.

It was in an Israeli jail that his unlikely transformation began. Al Jundi was welcomed into a highly organized, democratic community of political prisoners who required that members of their cell read, engage in political discourse on topics ranging from global revolutions to the precepts of nonviolent protest and revolution.

Al Jundi left prison still determined to fight for his people’s rights — but with a very different notion of how to undertake that struggle. He cofounded the Middle East program of Seeds of Peace Center for Coexistence, which brings together Palestinian and Israeli youth.

Marked by honesty and compassion for Palestinians and Israelis alike, The Hour of Sunlight illuminates the Palestinian experience through the story of one man’s struggle for peace.

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Sami al Jundi

About the Author

Jen Marlowe is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, author, playwright, and human rights advocate. Her writing can be found online at the Nation, TomDispatch, and WorldFocus.

Sami Al Jundi has spent the last two decades working toward peace and a nonviolent end to Israeli occupation. He lives in the Old City of Jerusalem with his wife and four children.

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Jen Marlowe

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Aisha Bain served as Deputy Director at the Center for the Prevention of Genocide.

Jen Marlowe is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, author, playwright, and human rights advocate. Her writing can be found online at the Nation, TomDispatch, and WorldFocus.

Adam Shapiro is a founding member of InCounter Productions that produced the documentary film, “About Baghdad”. He is also a co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (www.palsolidarity.org) in Palestine and lived and worked in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for three years.

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