“Rehab Nazzal’s Driving in Palestine takes us on a powerful journey of the Palestinian landscape, the land scarred with Israeli colonies, checkpoints, walls, surveillance outposts, and all sorts of military structures. Most brilliantly, Nazzal’s images, taken from a moving car, appear to us in a still black-and-white form that makes us forget the motion from which the images were taken. But there are small reminders throughout the book that these images are taken in motion, are of motion. Thus, the stillness of an image that is in fact rooted in motion allows us to sense and feel, albeit transiently, the Palestinian experience of movement, not as free, smooth, and open but rather brutally and by Israeli design as restrictive, stifling, still, and suffocating. Combining images with texts from a variety of perspectives and positionalities, this is a book that presents a penetrating method of capturing and communicating this inhumane experience of movement that Palestinians endure. It also critically accentuates Palestinian resistance and insistence on seeing, living, and experiencing Palestinian lands as whole and free.”
— M. Muhannad Ayyash, Mount Royal University