A dramatic, illuminating day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when president jimmy carter convinced Israeli Prime Minister Menachem begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign a peace treaty - the first treaty in the modern...
On November 2, 1917, the British government, represented by Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour, declared that they were in favor of “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” This short note...
In The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World, Cyrus Schayegh takes up a fundamental problem historians face: how to make sense of the spatial layeredness of the past. He argues that the modern world’s ultimate socio‐spatial...
The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating...
I Shall Not Hate is a Palestinian doctor's account of his extraordinary life. Abuelaish lived in Gaza but worked in Israel as a physician. He is a humanitarian who sees the need for improved health and education for women and the father whose...
White city, black city is a story of two intertwining narratives: the story of the white city of Tel Aviv, Bauhaus-influenced modernist architecture glittering white; and the haunting, violent, scandalous history of the black city of Jaffa....
Israel's conflict with the Palestinians, and the Arab world at large, casts a long shadow over her history.
When 1920s Zionist leaders formulated the 'iron wall' strategy - negotiating from a position of unassailable strength - they intended that...
Following Israel’s seven-week bombing campaign and ground invasion of Gaza in the summer of 2014, polls revealed a startling fact: for the first time, a majority of Americans under30 found Israel’s actions unjustified. Jon...
The Palestinian national movement gestated in the early decades of the twentieth century, but it was born during the Great Revolt of 1936–39, a period of Arab rebellion against British policy in the Palestine mandate.
In...
In 1998 Barghouti returned to the Occupied Territories. Barghouti weaves into his account of exile poignant evocations of Palestinian history and life - the pleasure of coffee, arriving at just the right moment and as an exile, the importance of...
