This Side of Peace. A Personal Account.

First edition. 8vo, 318 pp., [8] pp. b/w plates, illus., map, index. Quarter-bound burgundy cloth over beige paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Tan endpapers.

An insider's view of Mideast diplomacy, Arafat and the PLO hierarchy, and the thinking of the Palestinians. As the spokesperson for the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, Hanan Ashrawi became the most articulate voice of their struggle. Here in a revealing and important account, she tells of her own struggles, as a Christian Arab woman in a Muslim, male-dominated world, torn between motherhood and the demands of her cause, and as a pivotal player in the Oslo Peace Talks. "A revealing document of a partisan who has helped make Middle East history." –Publishers Weekly