Yasser Arafat

The beautifully-paced rage of Mourid Barghouti's latest memoir

Sarah Irving
19 April 2012

Mourid Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here is for anyone in your life who needs to understand the pain, the absurdity, the injustice, and the devastatingly predictable unpredictability of life for ordinary Palestinians.

An Edward Said essay that could have been written today

A 14-year old essay by the late Edward Said speaks with remarkable insight into the problems afflicting the Palestinian national liberation struggle, and the strategies of Israeli colonialism.

New documentary presents shallow view of Arafat

Sarah Irving
1 February 2012

A new documentary on Yasser Arafat accesses big-name Palestinian figures but wastes an opportunity to provide an in-depth look at the late leader.

Thomas Friedman's bouts of hypocrisy

Belén Fernández
4 November 2011

Belén Fernández takes The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman to task in this excerpt from her new book, The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work.

Shafiq al-Hout memoirs provide warts-and-all history of PLO

Asa Winstanley
1 November 2011

My Life in the PLO: The Inside Story of the Palestinian Struggle, the memoirs of the late Shafiq al-Hout, is historically sweeping, politically critical and fascinating throughout.

Influence of French pro-Israel lobby examined in new book

Samuel Ghiles-Meilhac shows how a broad church has defined itself narrowly as a supporter of Israel’s worst excesses.

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