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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 is
Palestinian by birth and has 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 has now 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.
About the Author
Edward W. Said was born in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and
Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended
Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In
1963, he began teaching at Columbia University, where he was
University Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
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