THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of the 'Five Best Books to understand the Israel-Palestine Conflict', as chosen by the GuardianShortlisted for the 2020 Cundill History PrizeA Granta Book of the Year 2023'This cogent and compelling Palestinian perspective is long overdue' Guardian'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in this deeply unequal conflict ' Noam ChomskyThe twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of nationhood and denial of history. The Hundred Years War on Palestine is Rashid Khalidi's powerful response. Drawing on his family archives, he reclaims the fundamental right of any people: to narrate their history on their own terms. Beginning in the final days of the Ottoman Empire, Khalidi reveals nascent Palestinian nationalism and the broad recognition by the early Zionists of the colonial nature of their project. These ideas and their echoes defend Nakba - the Palestinian term for the establishment of the state of Israel - the cession of the West Bank and Gaza to Jordan and Egypt, the Six Day War and the occupation. Moving through these critical moments, Khalidi interweaves the voices of journalists, poets and resistance leaders with his own accounts as a child of a UN official and a resident of Beirut during the 1982 seige. The result is a profoundly moving account of a hundred-year-long war of occupation, dispossession and colonialisation.
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine 9781781259344 Paperback
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A seminal work on the subject and a must read for anyone wishing to learn about the story behind the story. I recommend this book whole-heartedly. Michael D. Berdine, PhD author of "Redrawing the Middle East: Sir Mark Sykes, Imperialism and the Sykes-Picot Agreement"
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Expert analysis of the current conflict
A fine, authoritative and hardly biased account of this conflict. Well worth a read.
- Authors:
- Khalidi, Rashid I.
- Year Published:
- 2020
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- Illustrations Note:
- Maps and b&w photos
- ISBN:
- 9781781259344
- Number of Pages:
- 352
- Publication Date:
- 03/09/2020
- Publisher:
- Profile Books Ltd
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9781781259344