Gaza writes back is a collection of short stories from young writers in Gaza whose experiences under siege and blockade have fundamentally shaped their lives. These stories are acts of resistance and defiance, proclaiming the endurance of...
Issa J. Boullata grew up in a Palestinian family in the Jerusalem of the 1930s band 1940s, when Palestine was under the British Mandate. This memoir is delightful in its reflections and detailed in its recollections.
Baddawi is a coming-of-age story about a young boy named Ahmad struggling to find his place in the world. Raised in a refugee camp called Baddawi in northern Lebanon, Ahmad is just one of the thousands of Palestinians who fled their homeland after...
One of the few voices to make it out of the Gaza-Strip was that of Atef Abu Saif. Atef's eye-witness diary pieces were published in a range of major outlets (The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Slate, New York Times, etc) and became a unique porthole...
A major collection of poetry by 25 contemporary Palestinian poets translated by 25 of Scotland's very best writers. A bird is not a stone is a unique cultural exchange, giving both English and Arabic readers a unique insight into the political,...
Afzal Huda set out to chronicle the Separation Wall in Palestine. His camera caught images of compassion and perseverance rarely seen in the media’s portrayal of Palestinians. The resulting book is a powerful photo journal that depicts the...
This volume presents five years of Susan Abulhawa’s best poems on the timeless themes of love, loss, identity and family. My Voice Sought the Wind resonates with the works of Pablo Neruda, Mahmoud Darwish, while heralding a powerful new...
In "Chief Complaint" Kanaaneh uses a storyteller's skills of the extensive experience of lives of rural Palestinian citizens of Israel that he gained through decades as a public health physician to reveal the struggles, hopes, and the daily lives...
What does it take to discover the truth? Betrayal? Deception? Risking one's own life? Omar Ouda did it all. Vanished is a fictional story set against the political unrest in Palestine, following a young boy trying to find his father. The deeper he...
In 1948, when Halima was barely a year old, her village, Ibdis in Palestine, was destroyed by Israeli soldiers. With that, she began a life in exile.
First she was shuttled to Egypt, then to Saudi Arabia, and finally to Germany, where, after...