David Shulman

A photographic and verbal account of the landscapes of Palestine. The Bitter Landscapes of Palestine offers a portrait of the lives and struggles of Palestinians living in the occupied Palestinian territories on the West Bank, particularly in the South Hebron Hills and the Jordan Valley. Among the topics highlighted are house demolitions, confrontations between Palestinian shepherds or farmers and Israeli...

Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil-language, literature, and civilization—emphasising how Tamil speakers and poets have understood...