Mark Sanagan is a historian of the modern Middle East, a senior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto, and a manuscript editor for the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
"[A] masterful study of [‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam]...The judicious
analysis and research found in Lightning through the Clouds allows
us to cast aside the myth and lore surrounding this iconic figure
and uncover the many complex historical forces that shaped his
life. Lightning through the Clouds is not only a welcome
contribution to Palestinian studies but a valuable addition to the
larger field of modern Middle Eastern history."
*Journal of Palestine Studies*
A welcome scholarly publication...Sanagan’s choice of narrating the
social history of ʿIzz Al-Din Al-Qassam as the representative of
resistance in the modern Middle East offers a valuable contribution
to both the biography of the iconic hero and the historiography of
Mandate Palestine during its middle period. The study would benefit
scholars and students of history, religious studies, and Middle
East and cultural studies.
*Arab Studies Quarterly*
This biography of [‘Izz al-Din] al-Qassam places him not only in
the context of his social and political settings, but also allows
us to see him within a wider movement in which his charisma and
community connections made him not a single, dominating figure, but
first amongst equals...Sanagan has thus succeeded in writing a rare
book, one that combines the compelling narrative thrust of a
biography with a breadth of view that tells the reader something
genuinely new about the development of Palestine and Levantine
anti-colonial politics over the first third of the twentieth
century.
*Contemporary Levant*
Well-researched with extensive Arabic and English
sources...Sanagan’s study updates and supersedes the extant
literature on Qassam.
*AHR*
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