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Edward W. Said, (1986), After the Last Sky. Palestinian Lives, Photographs by Jean Mohr, Columbia University Press, New York, NY, 1999
Cover Design: Benjamin Shin Farber
Cover Photograph: from the interior
«The further we get from the Palestine of our past, the more precarious our status, the more disrupted our being, the more intermittent our presence.» – (p. 34)
«A second incontrovertible fact is that the alliance between Zionism and the United States ultimately caused our dispossession, and prolongs it to this day. […] It is as if Palestine had been a nondescript locale in the process of being evacuated by faceless natives, until Americans thought better of it and filled it with deserving Zionists. Any Palestinian who wishes to understand the peculiar miseries of his or her situation today must reckon with an almost total official American opposition to us as a people, as a society, as a cause.» – (p. 133)
«I would like to think, though, that such a book not only tells the reader about us, but in some way also reads the reader. I would like to think that we are not just the people seen or looked at in these photographs: We are also looking at our observers. We Palestinians sometimes forget that – as in country after country, the surveillance, confinement, and study of Palestinians is part of the political process of reducing our status and preventing our national fulfillment except as the Other who is opposite and unequal, always on the defensive – we too are looking, we too are scrutinizing, assessing, judging. We are more than someone's object. We do more than stand passively in front of whoever, for whatever reason, has wanted to look at us. lf you cannot finally see this about us, we will not allow ourselves to believe that the failure has been entirely ours. Not any more.» – (p. 166)