Said Aburish

Said K. Aburish (Arabic: سعيد أبو ريش‎) (born 1935, al-Eizariya) is a Palestinian journalist, and writer.

Born into a Palestinian family, Abu Rish attended school in Jerusalem and Beirut. He returned to Beirut in the 1950s as a reporter for Radio Free Europe and the London Daily Mail.

Writings

Over the years, Aburish has written extensively about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and his works on the subject include, Cry Palestine, Children of Bethany, and The Forgotten Faithful: The Christians of the Holy Land. He has disputed the common narrative that 700,000 Arabs were expelled from Israel during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War:

Our home was not taken over by the Israelis. No Israeli tank or platoon or soldiers came over and said Get out of here, you know, Get out of here, you know, We want to take this house.

Aburish has written a trio of biographies regarding three of the most prominent Arab Socialists, Nasser: The Last Arab, Arafat: From Defender to Dictator, and Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge. Aburish has also been a strong critic of the Saudi royal family, most notably in the book The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud.

Bibliography

• Aburish, Said K.: Children of Bethany: The Story of a Palestinian Family, Indiana University Press 1988. ISBN 978-0-253-30676-0
• Aburish, Said K.: Cry Palestine: inside the West Bank, Bloomsbury, London 1991. ISBN 978-0-7475-1005-5
• Aburish, Said K.: The forgotten faithful: the Christians of the Holy Land, Quartet, London, 1993. ISBN 978-0-7043-7036-4
• Aburish, Said K.: Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud, Bloomsbury, London, 1994. ISBN 978-0-7475-1468-8
• Aburish, Said K.: A Brutal Friendship: The West and The Arab Elite, Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1997. ISBN 978-0-575-06275-7
• Aburish, Said K.: Arafat: From Defender to Dictator, Bloomsbury Pub. Ltd. (UK), 1998. ISBN 978-1-58234-049-4
• Aburish, Said K.: Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge, Bloomsbury Pub., New York, U.S.A., 1999. ISBN 978-1-58234-050-0
• Aburish, Said K.: Nasser: the Last Arab, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, New York 2004. ISBN 978-0-312-28683-5

External links

• SAID K. ABURISH - Journalist and Writer
• Selling to Saddam issue 221 - July 1991 New Internationalist from Pay Off: Wheeling and Dealing in the Arab World (André Deutsch) 1985.