Peace And Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process

Peace And Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process

Author: Edward W. Said
Publisher: Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780679767251
Pages: 224pp
Weight: 188g
Year: 1996
Price: RM90

"The most eloquent and visible voice of the Palestinian struggle in America." - San Francisco Chronicle

Ever since Yasir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shook hands on the White House lawn, Israel and the Palestinian people have been engaged in what commentators persist in calling "the peace process." Yet Israel remains racked by violence and continuing land seizures, and Palestinians are more demoralized than ever before. Now in this probing and impassioned book, one of our foremost Palestinian-American intelletuals explains why the much-vaunted process has yet to produce peace-and is unlikely to as presently constituted.

Whether Edward Said is addressing the fatal flaws in the PLO's bargain, denouncing fundamentalists on both sides of the religious divide, or calling our attention to the distortions in official coverage of the Arab world, he offers insights beyond the conventional wisdom and a sympathy that extends to both Israelis and Palestinians. He does so with an incisiveness, clarity, and fairness that make Peace and Its Discontents essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of the Middle East.

"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