Intellectual Resistance and the Struggle for Palestine

Matthew Abraham is Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona, USA. He is the co-editor of The Making of Barack Obama: The Politics of Persuasion (2013) and the special issue of Cultural Critique on 'Edward Said and After: Toward a New Humanism' (2007). Abraham was presented with the Rachel Corrie Courage in the Teaching of Writing Award in 2005 by The Special Interest Groups and Caucuses of the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

"Drawing on the magisterial writings of Edward Said and Frantz Fanon, Matthew Abraham has written a brilliant and balanced critique of academic Zionism and a robust defense of Palestinian resistence to Israeli ethnic cleansing." - James Petras, Bartle Professor Emeritus, Binghamton University, USA

• Introduction 1. From Resistance to Accommodation: The Origins of the Policy Intellectual's Alignment with the State 2. Edward Said and Intellectual Resistance: Refusing the Politics of Accommodation 3. Edward Said, the Question of Palestine, and the Continual Quest for Intellectual Freedom 4. Biopolitical Resistance in Palestine: Suicide Bombing and the Fanonian Specter 5. Obama's Cairo Speech: The Failure of Resistance and Refusal Conclusion