{"product_id":"9781781253762","title":"Language of War, Language of Peace: Palestine, Israel and the Search for Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Few Palestinians have opened their minds and hearts with such frankness.\"—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Shehadeh writes beautifully, his language infused with a lyrical, melancholic sense of loss\"—\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Shehadeh writes with great clarity and simplicity, but no bitterness about the unhappy history of his family and country.\"—\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe situation at the world's greatest political fault-line has never looked bleaker, but still Shehadeh finds reason to hope and explains why.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaja Shehadeh \u003c\/b\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eStrangers in the House \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOccupation Diaries \u003c\/i\u003eand winner of the 2008 Orwell Prize for \u003ci\u003ePalestinian Walks\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Ramallah in Palestine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Profile Books Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046981714160,"sku":"9781781253762","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781781253762_p0.jpg?v=1763716234","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781781253762","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}