From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by Robert McCrum was published by The Guardian on March 21, 2016.
“The 100 best nonfiction books: No 8 – Orientalism by Edward Said (1978)”
Next to the suicide bombings, the air strikes, and the beheadings, a closely argued 300-page monograph devoted to a radical post-colonial thesis might seem to suggest a modest literary intervention. Yet in the ongoing, brutal clash of Islam and the west, Edward Said’s analysis remains the book to which no combatant can be indifferent.
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