Intellectual Resistance and the Struggle for Palestine

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Matthew Abraham

   Pages 1-36

3. From Resistance to Accommodation

   • Matthew Abraham

   Pages 37-59

4. Edward Said and Intellectual Resistance

   • Matthew Abraham

   Pages 61-98

5. Edward Said, the Question of Palestine, and the Continual Quest for Intellectual Freedom

   • Matthew Abraham

   Pages 99-115

6. Biopolitical Resistance in Palestine

   • Matthew Abraham

   Pages 117-132

7. Obama’s Cairo Speech

   • Matthew Abraham

   Pages 133-155

8. Conclusion

   • Matthew Abraham

   Pages 157-159

9. Back Matter

   Pages 161-197

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By positioning the late Edward Said's political interventions as a public intellectual on behalf of Palestinian populations living under Israeli occupation as a form of intellectual resistance, Abraham moves to consider forms of physical resistance, seeking to better understand the motivations of those who choose to turn their bodies into weapons.

• Accommodation
• freedom
• intervention
• Israel
• liberty
• motivation
• politics
• state
• suicide
• weapons

"Drawing on the magisterial writings of Edward Said and Frantz Fanon, Matthew Abraham has written a brilliant and balanced critique of academic Zionism and a robust defense of Palestinian resistence to Israeli ethnic cleansing." - James Petras, Bartle Professor Emeritus, Binghamton University, USA

Matthew Abraham is Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona, USA. He is the co-editor of The Making of Barack Obama: The Politics of Persuasion (2013) and the special issue of Cultural Critique on 'Edward Said and After: Toward a New Humanism' (2007). Abraham was presented with the Rachel Corrie Courage in the Teaching of Writing Award in 2005 by The Special Interest Groups and Caucuses of the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

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