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Hardcover bound in genuine gilt stamped dark green leather. 318 pages. Brand new copy in shrink wrap. A quality Easton Press production with all the refinements that go to make this a truly fine binding: bound in satin ribbon marker, all edges gilt, raised spine, 22kt gold stamping, smyth-sewn binding, silk moire end-papers, acid free archival paper and full genuine leather binding. Customarily laid-in to this title are an Easton Press unused book-plate, COA [Certificate of Authenticity] and brief Collector’s Notes, (unverified as this copy remains sealed in the original factory shrink wrap). Signed First edition, signed by the author on limitation page, one of 1,800 copies. Ashrawi was the official spokeswoman for the Palestinian delegation at the opening of the Madrid Peace Conference in 1991. Her position as an outlier and moderate was only reinforced by the fact that her father was a founding member of the PLO, while she herself was an Anglican academic and a woman, navigating a male-dominated, patriarchal society. Her memoir, though admittedly subjective, is no less significant for its “insider’s perspective on Yasser Arafat, the PLO hierarchy, the U.S. delegation, and the back-channel/secret talks that led up to the Oslo Accords.” An important primary historical source which illuminates many of the same issues that plague the region today. Brand new copy in factory shrink warp.