A Doctor in Galilee

'Hatim Kanaaneh sheds a unique light on the lives of the over one million Palestinians who hold Israeli citizenship in a beautifully readable and engrossing memoir of his years as a village doctor in the Galilee. His account of the rank racial discrimination, difficult social circumstances and pervasive poverty of most Palestinians in the Jewish state is leavened by Kanaaneh's humour and his eye for striking detail. This is a truly touching book that is hard to put down.' Rashid Khalidi'Scarcely any personal narratives of the lives of Israel's Arab minority exist. Kannaneh's fascinating exposure of this little known subject is written with passion and authority. Essential reading for students of the Israel/Palestine conflict.' Ghada Karmi, author of Married to Another Man (Pluto)'Our libraries are full with historical and political analyses of the Palestine question, but we still have very few personal diaries and journals that help to humanize the complex reality of the torn land. This personal account is a unique and vital contribution to this genre. The book blends the personal with the political, the past with the present and the emotional commitment with the rational analysis. It is a fascinating first hand account from the perspective of a Palestinian who defeats the imposed partition of the land and the fragmentation of its people: he belongs to Palestine on both sides of the Green line and is both a native of the land and a refugee in it.' Ilan Pappe'A moving account of the plight of the Palestinians by one of the m A- a physician struggling to alleviate his people's lot.'Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus