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Wall Down Ramallah by Minyong Cho is available for presale as a paperback (you can order multiple copies at a discount here). Born in Seoul, Korea, Cho immigrated to California when she was 16. In 2007, then 32 years old, she moved to the West Bank to finish her PhD dissertation in Islamic art history. There, one question about her past gnawed at her: why did she experience abuse as a child but not her sister?
In Wall Down Ramallah, Cho alternates memories of Korea with her life in Palestine, eliciting feelings of being completely and permanently outside any “home.” In liminal spaces like the Qalandia military checkpoint and the haunted hallways of a Jerusalem dormitory, and through the thin walls of the houses she moved through, she pieced together what her parents might have been hiding behind closed doors. The result of her profound, heartbreaking obsession with her personal history is Wall Down Ramallah.
Learn more about Cho in a conversation between the author and Melissa Nunez, Yellow Arrow interviewer.
yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/inhabiting-your-voice-interview-minyong-cho-wall-down-ramallah
The cover image is Yusuf fleeing the Advances of Zulaikha (1488) by Kamal Al-Din Behzad, currently in the Egyptian National Library and Archives and in the public domain on Wikimedia Commons. Cover design is by Alexa Laharty.
Thank you for supporting independent publishing.
Wall Down Ramallah by Minyong Cho is available for presale as a paperback (you can order multiple copies at a discount here). Born in Seoul, Korea, Cho immigrated to California when she was 16. In 2007, then 32 years old, she moved to the West Bank to finish her PhD dissertation in Islamic art history. There, one question about her past gnawed at her: why did she experience abuse as a child but not her sister?
In Wall Down Ramallah, Cho alternates memories of Korea with her life in Palestine, eliciting feelings of being completely and permanently outside any “home.” In liminal spaces like the Qalandia military checkpoint and the haunted hallways of a Jerusalem dormitory, and through the thin walls of the houses she moved through, she pieced together what her parents might have been hiding behind closed doors. The result of her profound, heartbreaking obsession with her personal history is Wall Down Ramallah.
Learn more about Cho in a conversation between the author and Melissa Nunez, Yellow Arrow interviewer.
yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/inhabiting-your-voice-interview-minyong-cho-wall-down-ramallah
The cover image is Yusuf fleeing the Advances of Zulaikha (1488) by Kamal Al-Din Behzad, currently in the Egyptian National Library and Archives and in the public domain on Wikimedia Commons. Cover design is by Alexa Laharty.
Thank you for supporting independent publishing.