A Country of Words
Abdel Bari Atwan, Saqi, £20
This autobiography by the editor of the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper begins with his childhood in a refugee camp in Gaza. It is interspersed with details of Israeli military aggression, from the massacres of the 1947-48 Nakba and Kafr Kasim in 1956 to the present settler terror-forces that have shaped his life as they do the lives of all Palestinians.