Salaita: The Holy Land in Transit: Colonialism and the Quest for Canaan

The Holy Land in Transit: Colonialism and the Quest for Canaan, by Steven Salaita. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006. ix + 182 pages. Notes to p. 208. Bibliography to p. 220. Index to p. 234. $34.95 cloth; $16.95 paper.
 
Sinan Antoon is assistant professor at New York University. His translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence is forthcoming in 2011.