Gabriel Varghese is an associate research fellow at the Kenyon Institute (Council for British Research in the Levant) in East Jerusalem. His research engages with anti-/post-/de-colonial theatre, performance and literature, and the questions they...
What is it like to live year after year under occupation? What can everyday life look like and how do the residents deal with the problems that the occupation brings? How do they resist and what joys do they have?
“All Quiet on the...
Water is a major global issue that will shape our future. Rarely, however, has water been the subject of literary-critical attention.
This book identifies water as a crucial new topic of literary and cultural analysis at a critical moment for...
The latest novel from renowned Palestinian writer Sahar Khalifeh, a deeply poetic account of love and resistance through a young girl’s eyes Nidal.
After many decades of restless exile, returns to her family home in Nablus, where she had...
Conflicts in cities that have a particular religious significance often become intense, protracted, and violent. Why are holy cities so frequently contested, and how can these conflicts be mediated and resolved?
In Power, Piety, and People,...
This book was shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2020.
Who has the right to a safe and protected childhood? Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding deepens understanding of children as political capital in the hands of those...
The first technical manual to be published on Palestinian embroidery, this book catalogs a wide range of techniques used in the dressmaking in the Historic Palestine and aims to revive the stitches that have fallen out of use today, such as...
Young love, meddling relatives, heart-to-hearts with friends, real and imagined.Philistia’s world is that of an ordinary university student, except that in occupied Palestine, and when your father is in indefinite detention, nothing is...
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba – the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people – and the Israelis celebrate as the...
2017 marked three important anniversaries for the Palestinian people: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 50 years since the Six-day War; and ten years since the Blockade of Gaza. As an act of penance, solidarity and hope, actor and musician...
