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 -...
Nazareth-born Rawia Bishara learned to cook from her grandmother and mother long before words such as foodie were coined. In Brooklyn she opened Tanoreen, today recognised as New York's foremost Middle Eastern restaurant. Her cooking celebrates...
A moving memoir of Chayut’s journey from eager Zionist conscript of Operation Defensive Shield to leading campaigner against the Israeli occupation. He slowly starts to question his soldier’s calling, Israel’s justifications for...
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...
The English translation of the memoirs of Anbara Salam Khalidi, the iconic Arab Lebanese feminist. At a time when women are playing a leading role in the Arab Spring, this book brings to life an earlier period of social turmoil and women's...
Ilan Pappe looks at the continued role of Zionist ideology in providing a sense of self and political direction. In particular, Pappe examines the way historians have framed the 1948 conflict as a liberation campaign, creating...
