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[...] a crucial addition to Israeli-Palestinian cultural scholar>ship. It provides a significant resource to anyone researching post-colonial studies, cultural studies, and peace and conflict studies.--Yue Han, SOAS ""IJMES"" Israel/Palestine offers an important contribution to the evergrowing literature on borders and border cultures. Focusing on Israeli and Palestinian cinematic and literary representations of borders, Paul revisits the figure of the border as both a physical device of immense and grave consequences, and as a fictional site of collective imagination open to destabilization. Exploring this double nature of the border, this well written and insightful book manages to advance a much needed cultural and political perspective -- at once sober and optimistic!-- ""Gil Z. Hochberg, Ransford Professor of Hebrew, Columbia University, New York, NY""

"[...] a crucial addition to Israeli-Palestinian cultural scholar>ship. It provides a significant resource to anyone researching post-colonial studies, cultural studies, and peace and conflict studies.--Yue Han, SOAS ""IJMES"" Israel/Palestine offers an important contribution to the evergrowing literature on borders and border cultures. Focusing on Israeli and Palestinian cinematic and literary representations of borders, Paul revisits the figure of the border as both a physical device of immense and grave consequences, and as a fictional site of collective imagination open to destabilization. Exploring this double nature of the border, this well written and insightful book manages to advance a much needed cultural and political perspective -- at once sober and optimistic!-- ""Gil Z. Hochberg, Ransford Professor of Hebrew, Columbia University, New York, NY"""

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Drew Paul, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee.

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