By following the vicissitudes of the Zu’aytir family, the book covers a crucial phase of Palestinian history: the passage from the Ottoman epoch to the period of the British Mandate. By concentrating on the figure of Sheik ‘Umar (1872-1924) and his two sons ‘Adil (1897-1957) and Akram (1909-1996), the book illustrates a particularly representative historical-political period, if not of the whole of Palestinian society, at least of a significant part of it, the ‘middle class’....