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The Politics of Suffering

The Politics of Suffering

Author(s):

Nell Gabiam

Publisher:

Indiana University Press

Published:

May 2016
The Politics of Suffering examines the confluence of international aid, humanitarian relief, and economic development within the space of the Palestinian refugee camp. Nell Gabiam describes the interactions between UNRWA, the United Nations agency...

Apartheid in Palestine

Apartheid in Palestine

Author(s):

Ghada Ageel

Publisher:

University of Alberta Press

Published:

January 2016
There are more than two sides to the conflict between Palestine and Israel. There are millions. Millions of lives, voices and stories behind the enduring struggle in Israel and Palestine, yet, the easy binary of Palestine vs. Israel on which the...

Losing Israel

Losing Israel

Author(s):

Jasmine Donahaye

Publisher:

Seren Books

Published:

June 2015
In a chance conversation with her mother, Jasmine Donahaye stumbled upon the collusion of her family in the displacement of Palestinians in 1948. She set out to learn the story of what happened, and discovered an earlier and rarely discussed piece...

Unholyland: the trilogy

Unholyland: the trilogy

Author(s):

Aiden Andrew Dun

Publisher:

Skyscraper Publications

Published:

May 2016
Through the story of two lovers, Mosh and Jalilah, this verse novel encapsulates the personal tragedy of the Palestine-Israel conflict. Set in the popular music culture of modern Palestine, using rap rhythms and the sonnet form, Aidan Andrew...

Night In Gaza

Night In Gaza

Author(s):

Dr. Mads Gilbert

Publisher:

Skyscraper Publications

Published:

July 2015
In the summer of 2014, Gaza was attacked by Israel for the fourth time since 2006. This attack lasted fifty-one days. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor, had worked at al-shifa hospital during each previous conflict, and in July 2014 he...

Gaza As Metaphor

Gaza As Metaphor

Editor(s):

Dina Matar

Publisher:

Hurst Publishers

Published:

March 2016
Open-air prison, terror, resistance, occupation, siege, trauma, bare humanity: irrespective of when, where, and to whom the word is uttered, Gaza immediately evokes an abundance of metaphors. Written by journalists, writers,...

Winners of the Palestine Book Awards

  • Elastic empire: refashioning war through aid in palestine
  • The revolution of 1936–1939 in palestine
  • Against erasure: a photographic memory of palestine before the nakba
  • Out of gaza: new palestinian poetry
  • Knights of cinema: the story of the palestine film unit
  • Lana Makes Purple Pizza: A Palestinian Food Tale
  • They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
  • I Sing From the Window of Exile
  • Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity
  • Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948
  • Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir
  • Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
  • Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial
  • Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes : Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body
  • Psychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine
  • Power born of dreams: my story is palestine
  • Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization
  • Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies
  • Places of Mind: A life of Edward Said
  • Except for Palestine: The limits of progressive politics