"A new neighborhood with the unseemly name of Umm al-Sharayit is one of these areas: a sprawling settlement housing a hodgepodge of badly kept apartment buildings, public facilities such as PA ministries, commercial establishments, sha‘bi restaurants, automobile repair shops, and wedding halls"
Lisa Taraki (2008) Enclave Micropolis: The Paradoxical Case of Ramallah/Al-Beirah. Journal of Palestine Studies.
My apartment is not badly kept! (Everything else is accurate).
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