| More

Hamas: From Resistance to Government

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

14 March 2012
The Palestine Center
Washington, DC

DOWNLOAD:
Audio: [Right Click + "Save As"]
Video: [Right Click + "Save As"]

To read the edited transcript of this briefing, click here.

"Hamas: From Resistance to Government"

with

Ms. Paola Caridi
Journalist, Historian

Hamas: From Resistance to Government (Seven Stories Press, March 13, 2012) is a comprehensive history of the Palestinian Islamist movement and combines news analysis with interviews of residents of Gaza to paint an incisive and multi-layered portrait of this still largely clandestine organization. Caridi steers clear of sensationalist reporting of the 2006 elections that brought Hamas to power, and instead looks at the history of this war-torn region and analyzes the circumstances that led a secular people to elect a radical Islamist group and the larger effects that it's had on the Israel/Palestine conflict.

Italian journalist Paola Caridi has been living in the Middle East and Jerusalem since 2001. She contributed to the founding of the press agency Lettera22 and has worked with L'Espresso, Sole 24 Ore, La Stampa, and Famiglia Cristiana. Hamas: From Resistance To Government, her second book, was published in Italy in 2009 and in Palestine in March 2010. She maintains a blog, InvisibleArabs, on Arab pop culture and politics.