Writing Worth Reading
Writing Worth Reading
This book is the antidote to the previous book which is a more fantastical version of the same time in history. Tom Segev I rate very, very highly. He is a crusty thinker and I don’t always agree with him. But, if you think that English is his second language, he is an extremely good writer and this book looks at the Arab community with a very empathetic intellectual and open attitude.
Your next book, One Palestine, Complete by Tom Segev, is also about that period, although it was written later.
Yes, this is a proper factual account of what really happened!
Is it such a good read?
Do you know, Tom Segev I rate very, very highly? He is a crusty thinker and I don’t always agree with him. But if you think that English is his second language, he is an extremely good writer and this book looks at the Arab community with a very empathetic intellectual and open attitude. Both groups in Palestine had a major bone to pick with the colonial power – Britain. And there was a fair amount of terrorism from both camps. British soldiers and diplomats were killed at the time. The 1930s was just as bloody as the Intifadas; it’s just that it was against the British.
Segev is a fine historian who looks at the history. And his family have been in Palestine for generations. He writes exceptionally well and he plays a very straight bat.
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Michael Goldfarb is an author, journalist and broadcaster. He has covered conflicts and conflict resolution from Bosnia to Iraq, primarily for America’s public radio system. His work has been given the highest honours, including the DuPont-Columbia Award, on both sides of the Atlantic. He has also been a Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press and Politics at Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government. His first book, Ahmad’s War, Ahmad’s Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2005.
