Description: A vital chronicle of the world's longest occupation in modern history.
Brief description: Sara Roy is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. A distinguished political economist, she has written extensively on the Palestinian economy and has documented its decline over the last three decades. She is the author of Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (Pluto, 2006).
Review Quotes: "Unique ... [Roy] is humanely rather than only professionally committed in ways that are unmatched by any other non-Palestinian scholar. ... No one has reported more accurately and scrupulously on the economic devastation attendant on the Oslo process." --Edward W. Said "Sara Roy's work has played a significant, sometimes unique role, in bringing [these] issues to life. ... Indispensable." --Irene Gendzier, Professor of History, Boston University