Author
Saree Makdisi
Professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA
Saree Makdisi teaches English and comparative literature at UCLA, with scholarly work on Romanticism and William Blake alongside his writing on Palestine. The combination is not incidental: he reads political language the way a literary critic reads a poem, for what its structure assumes.
Palestine Inside Out documents the occupation through its bureaucratic machinery — permits, checkpoints, closures — rather than through set-piece violence, on the argument that the ordinary apparatus is the more revealing subject.
