The Foundations of Zionism - Paperback

Jiryis, Sabri: - Sabri Jiryis is a Palestinian scholar, lawyer and writer. An Israeli citizen who lived through the Nakba as a child, he graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and dedicated his life to the study of the Palestinian cause and Zionism. He served in the Palestine Liberation Organization as director of its Research Center, member of the Palestine National Council and Fatah Advisory Council, and advisor to Yasser Arafat on Israeli affairs. He is the author of the seminal The Arabs in Israel (1966 in Hebrew). In 2025, Jiryis received the Arab Historian Award from the Union of Arab Historians, Baghdad, in recognition of his contributions to Arab historical research and writing.Jiryis, Fida: - Fida Jiryis is a writer and editor. She is the author of Stranger in My Own Land (Hurst, 2022) and three Arabic collections of short stories on life in Israel and the West Bank. She contributed to Kingdom of Olives and Ash, a Washington Post bestseller on fifty years of Israeli occupation, and Amputated Tongue, a Hebrew-language anthology of Palestinian literature. Fida is the author's daughter and has translated and edited this book from its original Arabic.