This book chronicles the emergence of Palestine as the undisputed core issue among the Arabic-speaking diaspora who immigrated to the US from geographic Syria. This process became complete in 1936 when the Arab national league was established in...
White city, black city is a story of two intertwining narratives: the story of the white city of Tel Aviv, Bauhaus-influenced modernist architecture glittering white; and the haunting, violent, scandalous history of the black city of Jaffa....
Following Israel’s seven-week bombing campaign and ground invasion of Gaza in the summer of 2014, polls revealed a startling fact: for the first time, a majority of Americans under30 found Israel’s actions unjustified. Jon...
In this rich and moving memoir, Abu Sitta draws on oral histories and personal recollections to vividly evoke the vanished world of his family and home from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the British withdrawal from Palestine and...
Popular Protest in Palestine provides an overview and analysis of the role and significance of unarmed civil (popular) resistance in the Palestinian national movement. The main focus is on the contemporary popular resistance movement in the...
A dramatic, illuminating day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when president jimmy carter convinced Israeli Prime Minister Menachem begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign a peace treaty - the first treaty in the modern...
Israel's conflict with the Palestinians, and the Arab world at large, casts a long shadow over her history.
When 1920s Zionist leaders formulated the 'iron wall' strategy - negotiating from a position of unassailable strength - they intended that...
An ethnographic study of Palestinian refugees in Dheisheh refugee camp, just south of Bethlehem, Occupied Lives looks closely at the attempts of the camp inhabitants to survive and bounce back from the profound effects of political...
War Against the People is a disturbing insight into the new ways world powers such as the US, Israel, Britain and China forge war today. It is a subliminal war of surveillance and whitewashed terror, conducted through new, high-tech military...
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press (formerly known as Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing)
Published:
August 2015
Omar is an orphaned Palestinian born into chaos and compelled by forces beyond his control to find his place in the world. He only has one thing to hold onto: a love that drives him. Nadia is young and idealistic. Her attempts to be oblivious to...
