Political books set in Palestine (3)
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Palestinian Walks : Forays into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh EN
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“A rare historical insight into the tragic changes taking place in Palestine.” —Jimmy Carter From Palestine’s leading writer, a lyrical, elegiac account of one man’s wanderings through the landscape he loves, once pristine, now forever changed by settlements and walls—now with a new afterword by the author. “I often come to walk in these hills,” I said to the man who was doing all the talking and seemed to be the commander. “In fact I was once here with my wife, it was 1999, and some of your soldiers shot at us.” “It was over on that side,” the soldier pointed out. “I was there,” he said, smil... continue
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Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said EN
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A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. "Grandly conceived . . . urgently written and urgently needed. . . . No one studying the relations between the metropolitan West and the decolonizing world can ignore Mr. Said's work.' --The New York Times Book Review In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield P... continue
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Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: And Other Poems by Ghassan Zaqtan EN
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A translation of the works of one of a key Palestinian poet contains his 10th and most recent poetry collection, along with selected earlier poems that illuminate the vision of what Arabic and Palestinian poetry are capable of.