In this book Rami Zurayk, professor of agriculture at the American University of Beirut, brings to light the intersections of food security, displacement and rural poverty, with the regional and global patterns of state injustice, neoliberalism, corporate control and foreign occupation.
Originally written as a series of posts for his blog (‘Land and People’), the format may challenge the reader at first.
However, what initially feels like a weakness ultimately emerges as a…