The replacement of the Ottoman Empire’s rule over Jerusalem by British forces in 1917 and the imposition of a British Mandate on Palestine by the League of Nations in 1921, created a new era of urban development in Jerusalem.
Ever since the Ottoman Empire was defeated and British colonial rule began in 1917, Jews and Arabs have struggled for control of the Holy Land. Israel's independence in 1948 in the wake of the Holocaust was a triumph...
Global Palestine provides a unique perspective on the nature and extent of the rights owed to Palestinians. John Collins assumes three overlapping premises: that Palestine is the site of an ongoing project of settler colonization; Palestine's...
With the images of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so dominant in our minds, walking for leisure is an activity little associated with the West Bank. But Stefan Szepesi’s book wanders well off the beaten track in Palestine exploring its...
Our Way to Fight follows the dangerous lives of peace activists in Israel and Palestine. It explores the crises that stirred them to act, the risks they face, and the small victories that sustain them. This book offers courageous grassroots action...
The is a novel about Michel, an undercover PLO operative. He is forced to go on the run when he takes possession of a package smuggled out of the Occupied Territories and linked to an assassination in Berlin – a package that both the...
In official statements, the European Union presents itself as an honest broker in the Middle East. In reality, however, it has been engaged in a long process of accommodating Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories. A recent agreement...
More than a century on from the Balfour Declaration, more than 50 years since the fateful war of 1967, and a full decade into the inhuman siege of Gaza—painfully, absurdly, almost unbelievably—the Israel-Palestine conflict rolls...
After decades of occupation and creeping annexation, the situation on the ground in Palestine/Israel can only be described as a system of apartheid. Peace efforts have failed because of one, inconvenient truth: the Israeli maximum on offer...
This book contradicts the dominant myth that incompetent, corrupt, and uncompromising Palestinian decision-makers are responsible for the stalemate in the peace process. Michael Bröning identifies new trends in the Palestinian Territories...
