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Rashid Khalidi’s powerful history offers a Palestinian perspective on a century marked by the denial of statehood, nationhood and history. Drawing on his family archives, he reclaims the right of a people to narrate its history on its own terms. Beginning in the final days of the Ottoman Empire, Khalidi examines the emergence of Palestinian nationalism and the early Zionist recognition of the colonial nature of their project. He follows these ideas through the Nakba, the Palestinian term for the establishment of the state of Israel, the cession of the West Bank and Gaza to Jordan and Egypt, the Six-Day War and the occupation. The author interweaves the voices of journalists, poets and resistance leaders with his own memories as the child of a UN official and a resident of Beirut during the 1982 siege, creating a moving account of a hundred-year conflict involving occupation, dispossession and colonialisation.
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Author: Khalidi Rashid I.
Language: English
Publication date: September 3, 2020
Manufacturer: Bohemian Ventures, spol. s r.o.
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, History books in english, Non-fiction literature in english
Type: Books - paperback
Pages: 337
ISBN/EAN: 9781781259344