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News & opinions from a Palestinian-American
living & working in Ramallah/Al-Bireh, Palestine

Books



“The Question of Palestine” by Edward Said [Recommended]

“The Question of Palestine” by Edward Said [Recommended]

This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate–one that remains as critical as ever. With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and an exile’s passion (he is Palestinian by birth), Edward W. Said traces the fatal collision between two peoples in the Middle East and its repercussions in the lives of both the occupier and the occupied–as well as in the conscience of the West. (Publisher’s description)


“The Arabs in Israel” by Sabri Jiryis [Recommended]

“The Arabs in Israel” by Sabri Jiryis [Recommended]

A classic account of the situation of Arabs in Israel in the 18 years following its creation. Sabri Jiryis, born in 1938 in the Christian Arab town of Fassuta, is an Arab Israeli writer and lawyer, a graduate of the Hebrew University law faculty, and prominent Palestinian activist. In 1966 the first edition of his book The Arabs in Israel was published in Hebrew.