Then Palestine

We cite from the cover: --
"One of the world's finest photojournalists, Larry Towell has created outstanding images in a place where political leadership, diplomacy, and the media have failed. In this compassionate, penetrating account of Palestinian life in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, Towell reveals the active center of a conflict that has vexed generations of peacemakers. Through his untiring commitment and keen perceptiveness, Towell promotes an unprecedented understanding of this people whose loss has been nearly forgotten by history.
Immediate, striking, and rich with the unexpected, Towell's award-winning pictures speak of terror and endurance, anger and the powerful human desire for home. Though his topic has global importance, he never loses sight of the personal scale on which conflict and daily pleasures alike are played out.
The book includes verse by the exiled Palestinian poet MAHMOUD DARWISH. An historical essay by French journalist RENÉ BACKMANN relates the story of an Israeli woman's poignant, strained relations with the Palestinian former owners of her childhood home. LARRY TOWELL's afterword includes excerpts from the journals he kept during his seven trips to the occupied territories between 1993 and 1997."