"Irreverent, erudite, captivating, and deeply informed, "Mountain against the Sea" is a must-read book by the leading essayist on the cultural history of Palestine and the Palestinians."--Beshara Doumani, author of "Rediscovering Palestine" "The preeminent Palestinian historical sociologist, Salim Tamari, exhibits his masterful range and inquiring intelligence in this engrossing study of important aspects of the social, cultural, and intellectual history of Palestine and the Levant over the past century."--Rashid Khalidi, ...
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"Irreverent, erudite, captivating, and deeply informed, "Mountain against the Sea" is a must-read book by the leading essayist on the cultural history of Palestine and the Palestinians."--Beshara Doumani, author of "Rediscovering Palestine" "The preeminent Palestinian historical sociologist, Salim Tamari, exhibits his masterful range and inquiring intelligence in this engrossing study of important aspects of the social, cultural, and intellectual history of Palestine and the Levant over the past century."--Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, Columbia University
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New. Offers eleven vignettes of Palestine's cultural life in the first half of the twentieth century. This book presents the memoirs, diaries, letters, and other writings of six Jerusalem intellectuals whose lives spanned the period of 1918-1948: a musician, a teacher, a former aristocrat, a doctor, a Bolshevik revolutionary, and a Jewish novelist. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486. 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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