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Issam Nassar

Issam Nassar is a Palestinian historian of photography and the Middle East. He is associate professor of History at Illinois State University and a research fellow at the Institute of Jerusalem Studies. Nassar is also associate editor of the Journal Jerusalem Quarterly and has authored many books, among them European Portrayals of Jerusalem.

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Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba

Leafing through this book upon receiving it, the discrepancy between the thriving life in...
Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine

Jacqueline Tong Is the involvement of the United States in what can be described as the “drop...
The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine: Background, Details, and Analysis

Published three months before the launch of last year’s Palestinian resistance operation...
Lana Makes Purple Pizza: A Palestinian Food Tale

Omar Ahmed Since I reviewed Baba, What Does My Name Mean? A Journey to Palestine, which was...

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Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba

A unique, stunning collection of images of Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
Out of Gaza: New Palestinian poetry

At the beginning of the Fifth Gaza War, the Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer defiantly promised...
Lana Makes Purple Pizza: A Palestinian Food Tale

Dive into "Lana Makes Purple Pizza - A Palestinian Food Tale," a heartwarming story for...
Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine

The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and...
The revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine

A radical analysis of Palestinian resistance from one of their most influential voices. Revisit...
Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit

This book consists of an account of the creation of the Palestine Film Unit (PFU) and its...

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