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We Are Exiles From Our Fathers' Land

Said K. Aburish ARMED STRUGGLE AND THE SEARCH FOR STATE by Yezid Sayigh OUP, f70, pp. 909 E xcept for the partisan historian or journalist, the century-old Arab-Israeli conflict......

My Palace For A Gorgeous Hermitage

Evelyn Joll THE HERMITAGE by Geraldine Norman Cape, f20, pp. 386 T he recent addition to the Louvre has made it the largest museum in the world, but the Hermitage has plans for......

The Old Story Served Fresh

David Irvine THE ULTIMATE INTIMACY by Ivan Klima Granta, £12.99, pp. 387 I n his novel, Love and Garbage, Klima's narrator says on the subject of writing: I still believe that......