Palestine inside out. An everyday ocupation

Palestine Inside Out is not about suicide bombers. For ordinary Palestinians, everyday activities such as tending one´s fields, visiting a relative or going to hospital require negotiating permits and passes, curfews and closures, ´sterile roads´ and ´seam zones´ - bureaucratic hurdles ultimately as deadly as outright military incursion.Not since Edward Said has there been such an articulate Arab voice on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In devastating detail, Saree Makdisi reveals how the ´peace process´ institutionalised Palestinians´ loss of control over their lives. Through eye-opening statistics and day-by-day reports, we learn how Palestinians have seen their hopes for freedom and statehood culminate in the creation of ´territories´ comparable to open-air prisons. Makdisi describes how, despite this, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be brought to a peaceful and just resolution.