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In July members
of our Readers Club received
A Voice of
Reason: Hanan Ashrawi and Peace in the Middle East
by Barbara Victor
A Voice of Reason : Hanan Ashrawi and Peace in the Middle East
in
English
by Barbara Victor
English version
available at Amazon
Hardcover - December 1994
Suggested Price: $24.95 |
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From Library
Review
This is a valuable addition to the small but growing canon of
books in English providing multidimensional accounts of Palestinian
history; no longer are we limited to one-sided works featuring Yasir
Arafat as the token representative of the Palestinian people. This
book presents a balanced portrait of the complex, highly
intelligent, controversial Christian Arab woman who emerged as the
media-savvy PLO spokesperson at the first Middle East peace talks in
1991 and remained highly visible to the signing of the
Palestinian-Israeli peace accord on the White House lawn on
September 13, 1993. As spokesperson, Ashrawi was responsible for
changing the PLO's image from terrorism to diplomacy. Victor, a
novelist and journalist with extensive experience in the Middle
East, spent 15 months interviewing Ashrawi and her family, friends,
and adversaries (both Palestinian and Israeli). The resulting book
reads more like a novel than a journalistic report. Victor is
particularly adept at the descripiton of place and people and has
done a skillful task of making a coherent whole from the sum of many
fragmented interviews.
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