Peace Under Fire

Informationen zum Autor Edward W. Said (1935-2003) was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Literature and of Kings College Cambridge, his celebrated works include Orientalism , The End of the Peace Process , Power, Politics and Culture , and the memoir Out of Place . He is also the editor, with Christopher Hitchens, of Blaming the Victims , published by Verso. New Left Review published an obituary in Nov-Dec 2003: http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2481 Klappentext Through previously published news articles, accounts drawn from web-logs and diaries, the last writings of the murdered American Rachel Corrie and contributions from the Humdall family, this book reveals the real horror of life under Israeli occupation and describes the first signs of a new wave of international solidarity. Zusammenfassung The last two years have been the most brutal in the entire thirty-six year history of Israel's military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. This text reveals the real horror of life under occupation and describes the first signs of a new wave of international solidarity.

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• Authors: Ghassan Arraf Andoni
• Assisted by: Ghassan Andoni (Editor), Huwaida Arraf (Editor), Arraf Huwaida (Editor), Nicholas Blincoe (Editor), Blincoe Nicholas (Editor), Hussein Khalili (Editor), Khalili Hussein (Editor), Marissa Mclaughlin (Editor), McLaughlin Marissa (Editor), Radhika Sainath (Editor), Sainath Radhika (Editor), Josie Sandercock (Editor), Sandercock Josie (Editor), Edward W Said (Foreword)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.2004
• EAN: 9781844675012
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-501-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 195 mm x 195 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Middle Eastern history, Palestine, Human rights, civil rights