Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process

Collection of essays by Edward Said written during the Oslo peace process, offering a sustained critical examination of the 1993 Oslo Accords from the perspective of Palestinian rights and national aspirations. Said argues that Oslo represented a Palestinian capitulation serving American and Israeli interests far more than Palestinian ones. A foundational critique of the Oslo framework and American peace diplomacy by the most prominent Palestinian intellectual of his generation. Essential for researchers and students studying the Oslo Accords from a Palestinian rights perspective, Edward Said's critique of the peace process, and the political implications of what Said identified as Palestinian capitulation in the Oslo framework.