2014

Women and Conflict in the Middle East

Women and Conflict in the Middle East

Author(s):

Dr Maria Holt

Publisher:

I.B.Tauris

Published:

November 2013
Women in Conflict zones face a wide range of violence: from physical to psychological trauma to political, economic and social disadvantage. Maria Holt uses her research gathered in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon and the West Bank to...

Keep your eye on the wall

Keep your eye on the wall

Publisher:

Saqi Books

Published:

September 2013
Keep Your Eye on the Wall brings together seven award winning artist-photographers and four essayists, all responding to the Wall; whether it is documenting the journey of labourers across the concrete separation barrier, or exploring the layers...

All the things you are

All the things you are

Publisher:

Headline Review

Published:

October 2013
All The Things You Are is a tense and absorbing novel of a woman's journey to Jerusalem from Manhattan to follow her heart. In Jerusalem, questions of family and loyalty mean more than life itself. In a divided world, is it history or love that...

Abraham's Children

Abraham's Children

Author(s):

Heather Stroud

Publisher:

The Other Press Sdn Bhd

Published:

September 2013
Fida is caught in the July 2005 London bombings. Scarred from her injuries, with no clear sense of why, she is drawn to Palestine. Her relationship with a Palestinian family deepens and she comes to appreciate and ingest the tremendous...

Lineages of Revolt

Lineages of Revolt

Author(s):

Dr Adam Hanieh

Publisher:

Haymarket Books

Published:

November 2013
Adam Hanieh explores the contours of neoliberal policies, dynamics of class and state formation, imperialism and the ramifications of the global economic crisis. By mapping the complex nature of capitalism in the Middle East, the book demonstrates...

The Lady from Tel Aviv

The Lady from Tel Aviv

Author(s):

Rabai al-Madhoun

Publisher:

Telegram Books

Published:

July 2013
In the economy class of a plane, the lives of two passengers intersect: Walid Dahman, Palestinian writer and Danah Ahova, an Israeli actress. The lady from Tel Aviv is both a meditation on the nature of fiction and an incisive exploration of the...

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