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...
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...
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...
In this book, Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon account for how human rights - generally conceived as a counter-hegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices - are being deployed to further subjugate the weak and legitimise domination....
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...
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,...
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...
The New Testament case against Christian Zionism uses the analogy of a trial in an American courtroom. Christian Zionism and its dispensational theology are in the dock and the case from the New Testament shows the movement to be guilty of...
This book chronicles the emergence of Palestine as the undisputed core issue among the Arabic-speaking diaspora who immigrated to the US from geographic Syria. This process became complete in 1936 when the Arab national league was established in...
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....
