More than just another ordinary tourist guidebook: Palestine
& Palestinians provides an in-depth, updated journey through the entire
range of Palestinian culture: ancient and modern history, archaeology,
religion, architecture and politics, including the daily realities of
Israeli Occupation. It describes places rooted in Palestinian memory:
sites which bear witness to a history and identity created from contact
with civilisations of the Middle East, Mediterranean, Europe and Arab
Peninsula. It also presents the contemporary tragedy and struggle of a
people seeking recognition of their rights and details of their ongoing
search for an end to injustice through a viable peace and statehood. Published
by the Alternative Tourism Group (ATG) of Beit Sahour Bethlehem, Palestine
"An introduction to Palestine and Palestinians that is serious, engaged,
and celebratory. Packed with practical information and historical perspective,
and written with evident pride in the land and the people, it asks its
users to hear an account of the current scene that will challenge many.
This is the guidebook for which I have been waiting for a long time."
The Rt Revd Michael Lewis, Bishop of Middleton, Manchester