The Question of Palestine

The Question of Palestine

Author: Edward W. Said
Publisher: Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780679739883
Pages: 320pp
Weight: 235g
Year: 1992
Price: RM104

"Books such as Mr. Said's need to be written and read in the hope that understanding will provide a better chance of survival." -The New York Times Book Review

This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate—one that is now more critical than ever. With the rigorous scholarship that he brought to his influential Orientalism and an exile's passion (he was Palestinian by birth and had been a member of the Palestine National Council), 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. He updated this landmark work to portray the changed status of Palestine and its people in light of such developments as the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the intifada, the Gulf War, and the ongoing Middle East peace initiative.

For anyone interested in this region and its future, The Question of Palestine remains the most useful and authoritative account available,

"Said is a brilliant and unique amalgam of scholar, aesthete, and political activist.... His learning is global." -The Washington Post Book World