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How the "peace process" has made life impossible for ordinary Palestinians.
This book is not about suicide bombers. Tending one's fields, visiting a relative, going to the hospital: for ordinary Palestinians, such everyday activities require negotiating permits and passes, curfews and closures, "sterile roads" and "seam zones"—bureaucratic hurdles ultimately as deadly as outright military incursion.
Not since the late Edward Said has there been such an articulate Arab voice on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In devastating detail, Saree Makdisi reveals how the "peace process" institutionalized Palestinians' loss of control over their inner and outer lives. He shows how Israel's massive concrete walls going up around Gaza and the West Bank isolate communities from their lands, their livelihoods, and each other. Through eye-opening statistics and day-by-day reports, we learn how Palestinians have seen their hopes for freedom and statehood culminate in the creation of abject "territories" comparable to open-air prisons.
Anyone surprised at Arab anger or the election of Hamas must read this book.
Hardcover w/jacket 6.5 × 9.6 in / 384 pages
Born in Washington, raised in Beirut, and educated in the United States, Saree Makdisi is a professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
In addition to his scholaryly books and articles on British romanticisim, he has published commentaries on the Middle East that have appeared in the editorial pages of newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, Los Angelss Times and An-Nahar (Beirut). He has published pieces on the Arab-Israeli Conflict in The Nation and the London Review of Books.
This book is not about suicide bombers. Tending one's fields, visiting a relative, going to the hospital: for ordinary Palestinians, such everyday activities require negotiating permits and passes, curfews and closures, "sterile roads" and "seam zones"—bureaucratic hurdles ultimately as deadly as outright military incursion.
Not since the late Edward Said has there been such an articulate Arab voice on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In devastating detail, Saree Makdisi reveals how the "peace process" institutionalized Palestinians' loss of control over their inner and outer lives. He shows how Israel's massive concrete walls going up around Gaza and the West Bank isolate communities from their lands, their livelihoods, and each other. Through eye-opening statistics and day-by-day reports, we learn how Palestinians have seen their hopes for freedom and statehood culminate in the creation of abject "territories" comparable to open-air prisons.
Anyone surprised at Arab anger or the election of Hamas must read this book.
Hardcover w/jacket 6.5 × 9.6 in / 384 pages
Born in Washington, raised in Beirut, and educated in the United States, Saree Makdisi is a professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
In addition to his scholaryly books and articles on British romanticisim, he has published commentaries on the Middle East that have appeared in the editorial pages of newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, Los Angelss Times and An-Nahar (Beirut). He has published pieces on the Arab-Israeli Conflict in The Nation and the London Review of Books.