Politics and Prose Gets Political and Suffers Blows

The Washington Post ran two op-eds over the weekend from two individuals at the center of a local bookstore controversy.

First up: Author Saree Makdisi, who says:

    I was scheduled to speak at Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse last month about my latest book, “Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation.” My appearance was canceled when the bookstore owners realized that my book concludes by questioning the viability of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Instead it proposes a single democratic, secular and multicultural state in which Israelis and Palestinians live peacefully as citizens with equal rights.

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