Berlin is home to Europe’s largest Palestinian diaspora community and one of the world’s largest Israeli diaspora communities. Germany’s guilt about the Nazi Holocaust has led to a public disavowal of anti-Semitism and strong...
In Spacing Debt Christopher Harker demonstrates that financial debt is as much a spatial phenomenon as it is a temporal and social one. Harker traces the emergence of debt in Ramallah after 2008 as part of the financialization of the Palestinian...
Linda Sarsour, co-organizer of the Women’s March, shares an “unforgettable memoir” (Booklist) about how growing up Palestinian Muslim American, feminist, and empowered moved her to become a globally recognized activist on behalf...
Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance confronts how Palestinians have recently felt obliged to re-think memory and resistance in response to dynamic political and regional changes in the twenty-first century, and asks: in what...
In the end, it is only a thin line that divides the maternal hug of Manal from that of a Jewish mother celebrating her son’s 13th birthday and from the warmth of the Nicola’s stove.
And even more subtle is the difference between Manal...
How are forbidden histories and memories retold in Israel/Palestine? What do stories tell us about peoples' everyday experiences of division and segregation? This book investigates the feelings and attitudes of children and young people in...
A suicide bombing in Jerusalem brings Medad, a 20-year-old Israeli Defence Forces sniper, and Hani, a young Palestinian shopkeeper, into each other's lives. Their lives will become deeply intertwined in a peace process.
Ayshaa, Hani's wife,...
Nineteenth-century Europe turned the political status of its Jewish communities into the “Jewish Question,” as both Christianity and rising forms of nationalism viewed Jews as the ultimate other. With the onset of Zionism, this...
Stories from Palestine profiles Palestinians engaged in creative and productive pursuits in their everyday lives in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Their narratives amplify perspectives and experiences of Palestinians exercising...
Arabic is unconditionally the national language of Palestinians, but for many it is no longer their mother tongue. More than a century after the early waves of immigration to the Americas and more than seven decades after the Nakba of 1948,...
