Synopses & Reviews
The signing of the September 1993 Israel-PLO agreement, one of the twentieth century's most dramatic political events, coincided almost to the day with the twentieth anniversary of the October 1973 war. While the precise timing was coincidental, the relationship between the two events is crucial. The 1973 war ironically marked the beginning of an era in which a long diplomatic effort could finally bridge the passionately intense Arab-Israeli conflict.
From War to Peace reveals new first-hand material gleaned through personal involvement at a high political level. It examines the initial warfare, the peace process, and the final breakthrough through the eyes of participants and close observers of these events and reveals the diplomatic and military stratagems they pursued. The contributors explore a number of controversial issues, including whether the 1973 war was avoidable, why peace could not have been concluded sooner, and how the chief parties have changed during this period. The book also looks to the future, explaining Israel and PLO strategies, U.S. and Russian involvement, and the potential for broadening the peace to include additional Arab states.
Synopsis
After decades of feminism and deconstruction, romance remains firmly in place as a central preoccupation in the lives of most women. Divorce rates skyrocket, the traditional family is challenged from all sides, and yet romance seems indestructible. In terms of its cultural representation, the popularity of romance also appears unchallenged. Popular fiction, Hollywood cinema, television soap-operas, and the media in general all display a seemingly bottomless appetite for romantic subjects. The trappings of classic romancewhite weddings, love songs, Valentine's Day--are as commercially viable as ever.
In this anthology of original essays, romance is revisited from a wide spectrum of perspectives, not just in fiction and film but in a whole range of cultural phenomena. Essays range over such issues as Valentine's Day, interracial relationships, medieval erotic visions and modern romance fiction, the relationship between the lesbian poet H.D. and Bryher, the pervasive whiteness of romantic desire, lesbian erotica in the age of AIDS, and the public romance of Charles and Diana.
About the Author
Barry Rubin is a Fellow of the Truman Institute and of the University of Haifa's Jewish-Arab Center, and author of
Revolution until Victory: The Politics and History of the PLO.
Joseph Ginat is Director of the Jewish-Arab Center, University of Haifa, and author of Blood Disputes among Bedouin and Rural Arabs in Israel.
Moshe Ma'oz is Director of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and author of Asad: The Sphinx of Damascus and Syria a
Moshe Ma'oz is Director of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and author of Asad: The Sphinx of Damascus and Syria and Israel.