The New York Times · 20 January 1980

CP-1980-016

The View From the West Bank

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“The reader must decide not how strong the Palestinian case is, but how well Mr. Said presents it. Would he convince an impartial jury?”

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Edward Said’s The Question of Palestine and Raymonda Hawa Tawil’s My Home, My Prison reviewed on the same page, a Palestinian scholar and a Palestinian woman writing from under occupation. The reviewer frames Said’s book as a case to be argued before a jury rather than a history to be read.

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"The View From the West Bank," The New York Times, 20 January 1980. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1980-016. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1980-016

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