Jacob J Nammar’s new memoir is an account of growing up in Jerusalem before, during, and after the Nakba. It addresses the lives of the Palestinians who remained in the Israeli-occupied part of West Jerusalem after the Nakba, remarkably free...
The book is a life history following Amal el' Sana- Alh' jooj's burgeoning journey from a young female shepherd to a powerful mediator of political and social change among Arab women in the Israel /Palestine region. Through ethnographic-political...
In 1997, a tragedy struck the family of Israeli-American Miko Peled: His beloved niece Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem. That tragedy propelled Peled onto a journey of discovery. It pushed him to re-examine many of the beliefs he...
This is the powerful account of Pamela Olsen’s life in the midst of Palestine—encompassing its historical richness, culture and the day-to-day existence of its civilians. Olson also traces her personal transformation. Her story offers...
Throughout the history of European imperialism the grand narratives of the Bible have been used to justify settler-colonialism. "The Zionist Bible" explores the ways in which modern political Zionism and Israeli militarism have used the Bible -...
Unholyland is a love story in 264 sonnets. An Israeli DJ meets and falls in love with a Palestinian rapper. In form, Dun's verses are a mixture of classical structures and free-ranging rap. They are earthy and immediate. It is a poem with a...
In 2006, Rabbi Brant Rosen, launched a blog called Shalom Rav, in which he explored a broad range of social-justice issues. This book is Rosen’s self-curated compilation of these blog posts and a record of his journey from liberal Zionist to...
Can a state be both democratic and ethnically self-defined? The Afro-Middle East Centre’s (AMEC) publication interrogates concepts such as ‘cosmopolitanism’, ‘nationalism’, ‘ethnocracy’ and...
The Prisoners’ Diaries provides a series of first-person commentaries on what Palestinian prisoners have been enduring for decades in the dark recesses of Israel’s unlawful and inhumane network of prisons. This book combines the...
This gripping, comi-tragic fictional–factual saga takes place in the environs of Jerusalem, from late Ottoman times to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. With the colourful strokes of his pen, Ibrahim Nasrallah paints a vivid...