Books, Essays and Reporting from the Last two Weeks
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Books, Essays and Reporting from the Last two Weeks
I’ve been reading Edward W. Said on The Question of Palestine, his 1979 investigation into the impact of what was then a 30-year crisis in the Mediterranean. The book outlines some of the history, presenting it through a Palestinian lens, reclaiming a voice that was being excluded from debates at the time.
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The book is dated — it predates the rise of Hamas, the death of Arafat, the discrediting of Fatah, and Oslo (though, this edition includes a preface that attempts to address it.
Said, a refugee from Palestine himself, died in 2003, but his voice in this polemic is an important addition to the larger debate.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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