PALESTINE IN BLACK AND WHITE

Publisher: London: Saqi Books, 2018, 171pp. ISBN: 9780863569401.

Palestine is one of the greatest human tragedies of current time. The way Palestinians have been deprived of their rights by the colonising Israelis is a brazen catastrophe of universal human rights. Most of the free and developed world, along with the world bodies and transnational human rights organisations like United Nations, Human Rights Watch, International Committee of the Red Cross and Amnesty International, continue to pay lip service to the perils of occupation whose brunt is daily borne by the hapless Palestinians.

Numerous books have been written about Palestine, its politics and its human tragedy just as there is a growing body of literature engaging with the question of Palestine. Many of those who write about the story of Palestine are not from amongst its indigenous natives. Therefore, if a native Palestinian writer articulates his story in any form, then it must be listened to, read and