Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

A compelling account . . . and a reminder that a true peace can be built only on justice.Desmond M. Tutu

Tending ones fields, visiting a relative, going to the hospital: for ordinary Palestinians, such activities require negotiating permits and passes, curfews and closures, sterile roads and seam zonesbureaucratic hurdles ultimately as deadly as outright military incursion. In Palestine Inside Out, Saree Makdisi draws on eye-opening statistics, academic histories, UN reports, and contemporary journalism to reveal how the peace process institutionalized Palestinians loss of control over their inner and outer livesand argues powerfully and convincingly for a one-state solution. 33 photographs and 12 maps