I’ve been reading Edward W. Said on The Question of Palestine, his 1979 investigation into the impact of what was then a 30-year crisis in the Mediterranean. The book outlines some of the history, presenting it through a Palestinian lens, reclaiming a voice that was being excluded from debates at the time.
The book is dated — it predates the rise of Hamas, the death of Arafat, the discrediting of Fatah, and Oslo (though, this edition includes a preface that attempts to address it.
Said, a refugee from Palestine himself, died in 2003, but his voice in this polemic is an important addition to the larger debate.
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