In a recent essay in the Times Literary Supplement, the Egyptian writer, Ahdaf Soueif, marvelled at the unending flood of books and essays on the Palestinians, these the work of Palestinians themselves, but also of Israelis, Americans, South Africans, Britons, Danes, and, as it happens, Indians. Here Soueif remarked:
“It took five decades, but now it’s here, and it will only grow. Books are tumbling off the spaces, so Palestine’s story expands into the world. This is the Palestinians’ great achievement. Harried from their homeland and in the face of a state with the most sophisticated political, legal and PR machinery and the most powerful friends in the world, they [the Palestinians] have been determined not to be extinguished as a people and a culture.”[Source]