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Peace and Its Discontents
Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process
by Edward W. Said
ISBN: 0679767258
ISBN-13: 9780679767251
Format: Paperback
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This book was chosen as a "Times Literary Supplement" Book of the Year for 1996.
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"No one studying the relations between the metropolitan West and the decolonizing world can ignore Mr. Said's work."
-- New York Times Book Review
"In the Reith Lectures (1993) Edward Said argued that for the intellectual, the necessary stand is a moral stand and the natural place is in opposition. In his political essay...'Pease and Its Discontents', Said shows how it's done." -- Ahdaf Soueif
-- Times Literary Supplement
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published date: 1996
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 5.25 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Pages: 188
Publisher's Notes
In works such as Culture and Imperialism, Said has compelled us to question our culture's most privileged myths. Now with this impassioned and incisive book, our foremost Palestinian-American intellectual challenges the official version of the Middle East "peace process." "He challenges and stimulates our thinking in every area."-- Washington Post Book World.
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