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Title: Offensive Orientalist Propaganda
Review: This is one of the most offensive books I've encountered in recent memory. It attempts to tar Palestinian society as backward, misogynistic, and tribal which it is not. I have lived and worked with Palestinians for decades and never encountered any with personal stories such as this.I do not doubt that horrific honor killings occur, but they are not "daily occurrences" by any stretch. The author herself states that only 8 women are murdered per year and only two-thirds of these are honor killings.Let's get real. The only purpose of this book is to demonize Arabs and Palestinians in particular, and to cash in on the gulliblity, ignorance, and hysteria of Americans given the current "war on terror" environment.
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