Palestine by Joe Sacco

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Introduction by Edward Said

In late 1991 and early 1992, Joe Sacco spent two months living with Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, traveling and taking notes. Upon returning to the United States in mid-1992, he started writing and drawing Palestine, which combined the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comic-book storytelling to explore the issue.

This book is about the first Intifada against the Israeli occupation, which was beginning to run out of steam at the time of my visit. As I write these words, a second Intifada is taking place because in short, Israeli occupation, and all the consequences of the domination of one people by another, has not ceased.—Joe Sacco

"A political and aesthetic work of extraordinary originality, quite unlike any other in the long, often turgid and hopelessly twisted debates that had occupied Palestinians, Israelis, and their respective supporters... With the exception of one or two novelists and poets, no one has ever rendered this terrible state of affairs better than Joe Sacco." —Edward W Said

Softcover, 285pp

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