“In Gaza, where the world wavers between silence and forgetting, the written word becomes a final sanctuary – a fragile, luminous act of survival,” Reem Ghanayem writes in the Editor’s Note to the bilingual edition of Book of Wills (Akoya...
When Palestinian negotiators returned from the Madrid peace talks in the early 1990s, they briefed the press at a theatre in East Jerusalem. It seems an odd setting for news of talks that held the world’s attention, until you discover the role...
Rural Palestine stands between idealised and romanticised images of abundant land, and the reality of settler violence and the effects on agricultural territory. Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Struggle for Land Justice in Palestine...
Drawing upon philosophy and literature, Hamid Dabashi exposes the roots of Western colonial savagery and its entire manifestation in Israel as a Western colonial project currently engaged in exterminating Palestinians through genocide.
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There is no neutrality in maps. Thomas Suarez makes that point early in Palestine Mapped: From the River to the Sea in Early Cartographic Thought (Interlink Books, 2025) “All maps are products of their makers’ worldview, their assumptions,...
In the foreword to Resisting Erasure: Libraries in Palestine and Palestine in Libraries (Litwin Books, 2026), Emily Drabinksy writes about the difficulties encountered while indexing articles about settler colonialism and apartheid in the occupied...
Review: Adam H. Johnson examines how America’s liberal media provided cover for Israel’s genocide in Gaza
The dispute over whether Israel’s assault on Gaza amounts to genocide has largely been settled. Amnesty International, a UN commission...
The Western imagination of Palestine has undergone many transformations. Today, the image of Palestine presented to us carries not only the weight of history but a warning about the future. What unfolds there is not just a story of occupation, but...
“Resistance, in its plethora of meanings and images, is what motivated Ghassan Kanafani to write,” Louis Brehony and Tahrir Hamdi write in their introduction to Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings (Pluto Press, 2024). Its...
Unlike most Palestinian fiction, No One Knows Their Blood Type (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2024) does not prioritise the Palestinian anti-colonial resistance or portray its protagonists as central to the Palestinian struggle. The...
