Across Palestine, from the Allenby Bridge and Ramallah, to Jerusalem and Gaza, Marcello Di Cintio has met with writers, poets, librarians, bookseller sand readers, finding extraordinary stories in every corner. Stories of how revolutionary writing...
It is 1947, and Beit Daras, a quiet village in Palestine surrounded by olive groves, is home to the Baraka family. Eldest daughter Nazmiyeh looks after her widowed mother, prone to wandering and strange outbursts, while her brother Mamdouh tends...
To Palestinians elsewhere, Gaza became known as 'the exporter of oranges and short stories' in the 70's and 80's. This anthology brings together some of the pioneers of the Gazan short story from that era, as well as younger exponents of the form,...
This book argues that in studying the elimination of native life in palestine, the loss of arab-jewish shared life cannot be ignored. Muslims, christians, and jews shared a life in...
Mainstream nationalist narratives and political movements have dominated the Israeli-Palestinian situation for too long. In this book, Ran Greenstein challenges this hegemony by focusing on four different, but at the same time connected, attempts...
Beginning July 8, 2014, Israel launched air strikes and a ground invasion of Gaza that lasted fifty-one days, leaving over 2,000 people dead, the vast majority of whom were civilians. During the assault, at least 10,000 homes were destroyed and,...
May 15th 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the declaration of independence by the government of the new state of Israel, which was created by taking over more than half of the area of Palestine, and expelling 750,000 Palestinians. In the...
This book analyses the present EU approach to state-building, both in policy and operation. It offers a review of the literature on peace-building, EU state-building and conflict resolution, before examining in detail the EU's role as a...
Analysing the land tenure system in Palestine under the administration of the British Mandate, this book questions whether, and to what extent, the land tenure system in Palestine facilitated Zionist land acquisition.
The research uses benchmarks...
Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.
The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008. A “cultural...