The Question of Palestine - Tapa blanda

From the distinguished author of Orientalism, The Question of Palestine is a powerfully moving account of one of the most hotly debated issues in the world today: the emergence of the modern Palestinian nation and its confrontation with Zionism and Israel. Edward Said argues the plight of four million scattered Palestinians who have been disenfranchised and deprived of their homeland. With a new preface and epilogue this Vintage edition is brought up-to-date in the light of the Middle East peace talks in Madrid.

Edward Said was born in Jerusalem in 1935. In 1951 he attended a private preparatory high school in Massachusetts, America and he went on to study at Princeton University for his BA and at Yale for his MA and PhD. He became University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Said was bestowed with numerous honorary doctorates from universities around the world and twice received Columbia's Trilling Award and the Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association. He is best known for describing and critiquing 'Orientalism' and his book on the subject was published in 1978. He died in 2003.