'Draws upon the latest research in archaeology, linguistics and history to expose how Palestine's past has been appropriated for orientalist and colonialist purposes.This is a brilliant tour-de-force of recovery, decolonisation, revision and inclusivity'
Hilton Obenzinger 'Seeks to restore the history of the Eastern Mediterranean from an interested sociology of knowledge. Particularly moving is the discussion of Palestinian epistemological self-colonisation, ... Read morea regrettable result of the appropriation of history'
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Professor of Humanities, Columbia University 'A courageous foray into one of the most fraught terrains of history. ... Those who seek to arrive at any understanding of one of the world's most misunderstood regions would do well to read [this] closely'
Djelal Kadir, The Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University 'Right on the mark ... [He explains how scholars] have created a politically tendentious history of Palestine, which has effectively marginalised every alternative history, and which has supported an intensifying effort to displace modern Palestinians from their cultural roots'
Thomas L. Thompson, Professor emeritus, University of Copenhagen Show Less