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Tracing young men and women who first biography of this charismatic their experiences of wastes over the fought the war come to life, writing figure. Zayyad’s life was one of past decade, Stamatopoulou-Robbins about everything from daily life to balance and contradiction— considers how multiple authorities nationalism, colonialism, race, and between his revolutionary governing the West Bank—including the character of their enemies. writings as Palestinian patriotic the Palestinian Authority, interna- Dear Palestine also examines how poet and his pragmatic political tional aid organizations, and Israel the architects of the conflict worked work in the Israeli public sphere. —rule by waste siege, whether to influence and indoctrinate key He was uncompromising in his intentionally or not. Her work ideologies in these ordinary protest of injustices against the challenges common formulations of soldiers, by examining battle Palestinian people, but always waste as “matter out of place,” by orders, pamphlets, army committed to a universalist vision suggesting instead that waste siege magazines, and radio broadcasts. of Arab-Jewish brotherhood. It be understood as an ecology of Through two narratives—the was this combination of traits “matter with no place to go.” Waste official and unofficial, the propa- that made Zayyad an exceptional siege thus not only describes a ganda and the personal letters— leader—and makes his biography stateless Palestine, but also becomes Dear Palestine reveals the fissures larger than the man himself to a metaphor for our besieged planet. between sanctioned nationalism offer a compelling story about “Taking the reader on a journey and individual identity. Palestinians and the state of Israel. through landfills and rubbish markets, “Hazkani makes a brilliant contri- “The Optimist is a deftly written encounters with