Reading Palestine: Printing and Literacy, 1900–1948, by Ami Ayalon. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. xii + 160 pages. Notes to p. 184. Sources to p. 200. Index to p. 207. $55.00 cloth; $21.95 paper. JSTOR

Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University and editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.