Dubbed 'the poster girl of Palestinian militancy', "Leila Khaled"'s image flashed across the world after she hijacked a passenger jet in 1969. The picture of a young, determined looking woman with a checkered scarf, clutching an AK-47, was as era-defining as that of Che Guevara. In this intimate profile, based on interviews with Khaled and those who know her, Sarah Irving gives us the life-story behind the image. Key moments of Khaled's turbulent life are explored, including the dramatic events of the hijackings, her involvement in the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of...
Dubbed 'the poster girl of Palestinian militancy', "Leila Khaled"'s image flashed across the world after she hijacked a passenger jet in 1969. The ...
Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion.
Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiograph...
