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Language of War, Language of Peace
- Palestine, Israel, and the Search for Justice
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
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When conflicts become entrenched over generations, the language of war infiltrates everyday life, concealing destruction and hardening positions. Nowhere is this truer than in the Middle East.
Award-winning author Raja Shehadeh explores the politics of language and the language of politics in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reflecting on the walls that they create - legal and cultural - that confine today's Palestinians just like the borders, checkpoints and so-called "Separation Barrier". He shows how the peace process has been ground to a halt by twists of language and linguistic chicanery that have degraded the word peace itself. The situation at the world's greatest political fault line has never looked bleaker, but still Shehadeh finds reason to hope and explains why.
Raja Shehadeh is Palestine's leading writer. He is also a lawyer and the founder of the pioneering Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq. Shehadeh is the author of several acclaimed books, including Strangers in the House and Occupation Diaries and winner of the 2008 Orwell Prize for Palestinian Walks. He lives in Ramallah in Palestine.
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- Annie
- 12-12-23
brilliant
it is brilliant in being able to just help you understand how language is used to villianise and make people seem to be in the wrong with the manipulation of words and actions
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- Happy Consumer
- 21-10-21
Great book
A very well told story about the authors life and experiences in occupied Palestine
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- London Ms
- 06-09-23
A clear and powerful explanation
This concise analysis and summary of events leading to current appalling situation in occupied Palestine is brilliantly written and beautifully read.
A Palestinian voice that should be heard.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-03-24
Important insights
This book gives both the historical perspectives that are so important to understand that Palestine and Israel is more than a conflict, and concrete examples from the field on how the language constructs the image of reality. Listening to this during the war in Gaza in February 2024 shows with clearity that this war did not begin the 7th of October.
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