Blaming the Victims Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian QuestionThis original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate one that remains as critical as ever. With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and an exile's passion (he is Palestinian by birth), Edward W. Said traces the fatal collision between two peoples in the Middle East and its repercussions in the lives of both the occupier and the occupied as well as in the conscience of