Book by Kareem Rabie examines a wave of real estate development and consumer capitalism in the West Bank in the late 2000s and early 2010s, analyzing how Palestinian Authority-backed development promoted a vision of state-building and normalcy that obscured the realities of ongoing occupation. Rabie argues that capital investment and urban development became tools of political legitimation for the PA.A sharp resource for researchers studying Palestinian urban development, the political economy of West Bank real estate, and the relationship between capitalism, state-building, and the Palestinian national project.
