Snapshots of Kaldone G. Nweihed’s Early Youth

Abstract

Th is article is based on selected excerptions from Kaldone Nweihed’s diaries about his childhood and adolescence in Palestine during the British Mandate. Main topics include Kaldone’s education in German, English and Arabic schools; his trips with his father inside and outside Palestine; his trips with his family and classmates; his fi rst job in Barkly’s Bank. In addition to other subjects scattered beneath the various selected items, such as Kaldone’s analysis of personalities; comments on events; mental or psychological correlation, or both, between the events of his early youth and events that took place decades later in his life.