Till We Have Built Jerusalem is a gripping and intimate journey into the very different lives of three architects who helped shape modern Jerusalem. The book unfolds as an excavation. It opens with the 1934 arrival in Jerusalem of the...
This groundbreaking collection brings together the work of sixty-five prominent writers to examine America's culpability in the denial of human rights and dignity to Palestinians in Israel/Palestine and beyond. It includes pieces by writers such...
In 1937, when Lillian Rosengarten was a toddler, her family fled Nazi Germany, for New York. But even there, the legacy of the Nazis's brutality continued to cast a shadow over her family for many decades. In Survival and Conscience, Rosengarten...
Seikaly's Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2016) explores how Palestinian capitalists and British colonial officials used economy to shape territory, nationalism, the home, and...
Hundreds of Palestinian villages were left empty across Israel when their residents became refugees after the 1948 war, their lands and property confiscated. Most of the villages were razed by the new State of Israel, but in dozens of others,...
How do women in conservative religious movements expand spaces for political activism in ways that go beyond their movements' strict ideas about male and female roles? How and why does this activism happen in some movements but not in others?...
Chances for Peace is an innovative re-examination of ninety years of attempted negotiations in the Arab-Israeli conflict. This study provides a balanced account of the most significant attempts to forge peace, initiated by the world’s...
During Israel’s lengthy 2014 assault on Gaza, voices within and outside Gaza rose in desperate protest. Using numerous creative means, Palestinians and their allies bore witness to the Israeli attacks—and to the crushing siege that...
Binational cities play a pivotal role in situations of long-term conflict, and few places have been more marked by the tension between intimate proximity and visceral hostility than Jaffa, one of the ‘mixed towns’ of Israel/Palestine....
The Politics of Suffering examines the confluence of international aid, humanitarian relief, and economic development within the space of the Palestinian refugee camp. Nell Gabiam describes the interactions between UNRWA, the United Nations agency...
