Review: Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited, by Kareem Rabie

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Book Review| June 01 2022 Review: Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited, by Kareem Rabie Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited, by Kareem Rabie (Durham: Duke Press, 2021). US$99.95 (hbk), ISBN 1478011955 Jamil Hilal Jamil Hilal Independent Palestinian sociologist, who has been working as a senior research fellow in a number of Palestinian research institutions, including Birzeit University, the Institute of Palestine Studies, the Palestinian Institution for the Study of Democracy (Muwatin), among others. Email: jamilh@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Contemporary Arab Affairs (2022) 15 (2): 100–102. https://doi.org/10.1525/caa.2022.15.2.100 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jamil Hilal; Review: Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited, by Kareem Rabie. Contemporary Arab Affairs 1 June 2022; 15 (2): 100–102. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/caa.2022.15.2.100 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentContemporary Arab Affairs Search This book examines the changes in the West Bank during the post-Salaam Fayyad years. The author follows in great detail the case of the construction of the city of Rawabi in the West Bank. Rawabi, a housing complex founded near the city of Ramallah by the Palestinian entrepreneur Bashar Masri, is explored by the author as a case study to illustrate how private capital has increased the dependency of the Palestinian West Bank characterized by a settler–colonialist condition. This condition is not, regrettably, illustrated sufficiently or adequately here. The book documents very meticulously the emergence of this urbanized zone and how private capital restructured the public sector and subordinated the Palestinian Authority (PA) to the institutions of the occupying Israeli power. The author views the emerging city of Rawabi as a political–economic project occurring within a process of a Palestinian “state-building” endeavor that was envisaged, very naively as it turned... You do not currently have access to this content.