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... of Beirut in 1982. Palestinian modernist novels emerge in this context both to mark the end of Arab and Palestinian praxis and to resist its revolutionary recoil. Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and Abdelrahman Munif's coauthored novel World without Maps (1982) and Jabra's The Other Rooms (1986) are discussed...

... at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of Fiction of the “New States- man,” 1913–1939 (2011) and is currently completing a monograph on the Palestinian novel. 194 the minnesota review Morgan Adamson is assistant professor in the Media and Cultural Studies Department at Macalester College. Her...

... Said. Said initially described the Palestinian leader in his book After the Last Sky (1986) as a “genius at mediation” who took the dispersed and unrecoverable history of the Palestinians and “represented” it, making “it impossible to see the Middle East . . . without seeing the Palestinian...

... the Palestinian-Israeli Elia Suleiman. Her next book will be about Marilyn Monroe, Rosa Luxembourg, and Charlotte Salomon. Rose’s previously published monographs, to which she refers in the interview, include The Case of Peter Pan, or The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction ; Sexuality in the Field of Vision...

...: An Historical and Critical Introduction (1982), Allen studies a number of such novels that delin- eate postcolonial themes of independence, the continuing tragedy of the Palestinian people, the Camp David Accords, and the bitter civil strife in Lebanon that added to Arab disappointment. The main nov...

... to identify with and co-opt the work and theories of those considered revolutionary in the West” (290). No doubt this would be a surprise for most western-trained literary critics who have studied Said— a tireless secularist from a Christian Palestinian background. Yet while Nafisi’s student (Mr...

...” between the US and Israel for Palestinians, and he has persistently called attention to seemingly distant political injustice, notably to the US-backed virtual genocide in East Timor. At home, he has diagnosed the way in which policy debate in the US is obscured by misinformation or “flak,” which...

... published in revised form as Murder Most Puzzling (1998). She expanded her interest in political organizing and protest, most notably as a Jewish critic of Zionism, the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, and the invasion of Lebanon. She also...

.... Guy Debord famously called this a “style of negation,” or détournement (1995, 144). 4. These blockades were carried out by Occupy Oakland in 2011 and have recently been led by pro-Palestinian groups in a campaign to blockade Israeli ships attempting to enter US ports, in a campaign known...

... and published in a book of my essays there. So many Israelis and Palestinians read my analyses of the politics and symbolism and images of the Palestinian-Israeli conflicts. That’s not activism in the usual sense, but it’s the kind of thing that Edward Said cultivated; he is one of my models...

..., a Palestinian filmmaker; I’ve got a film in development now with Ziad Doueiri, a wonderful Lebanese filmmaker; I’ve got a film in development now with a Turkish filmmaker. I have these resources, nobody is doing this, and it’s like, why not? Will these be the most politically correct “Arab” movies...