Abstract

Reviewing Mark A. Heller's and Sari Nusseibeh's book No Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict* provides an excellent opportunity to place the joint venture of two scholars working on both sides of the green line within the wider context of an historical introspection on coauthorship in a situation of existential conflict.' Indeed, the mere writing of such a book by a Palestinian and an Israeli intellectual-at the time affiliated with, respectively, Birzeit University and Tel Aviv University-raises the question of whether two patriotic and pragmatic members of nations at war can cooperate in arriving at a single analysis of their realities. A second question that poses itself is to what extent the joint exercise of writing such a book sets a precedent. We will begin, therefore, by addressing the general background of coauthoring in the Israeli-Palestinian context as part of a process that gradually brought individuals in the disputed land to translate into writing their shared and unshared visions. Besides the coauthoring experiences of Arabs

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