The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

Resumen del libro

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERShortlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in this deeply unequal conflict ' Noam ChomskyThe twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of nationhood and denial of history. The Hundred Years War on Palestine is Rashid Khalidi's powerful response.

Drawing on his family archives, he reclaims the fundamental right of any people: to narrate their history on their own terms. Beginning in the final days of the Ottoman Empire, Khalidi reveals nascent Palestinian nationalism and the broad recognition by the early Zionists of the colonial nature of their project. These ideas and their echoes defend 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.

Moving through these critical moments, Khalidi interweaves the voices of journalists, poets and resistance leaders with his own accounts as a child of a UN official and a resident of Beirut during the 1982 seige. The result is a profoundly moving account of a hundred-year-long war of occupation, dispossession and colonialisation.

Biografía del autor

Historiador y escritor estadounidense de origen palestino y libanés, especialista en Oriente Medio. Es titular de la cátedra Edward Said de Estudios Árabes de la Universidad de Columbia y fue asesor de la delegación palestina en las negociaciones de paz de Madrid y de Washington entre 1991 y 1993. Fue presidente de la Middle East Studies Association, y es redactor jefe de la revista Journal of Palestine Studies. Desde los años 1960 hasta 1983 vivió principalmente en Beirut, donde nacieron sus hijos y donde enseñaba en diversas universidades.