The life of refugees is one of many hardships and difficulties, having to face the daily struggle for survival their lives are exacerbated by numerous factors. In Maria Holt's book she analyses how violence is the principle factor which worsens...
The Girl Who Stole my Holocaust is essentially about an epiphany. Noam Chayut's memoir charts his journey from a battle hardened soldier protecting an illegal occupation into a conscientious man who relentlessly confronts the injustice of that...
In her novel Clemency Burton-Hill asks if love can put back together what the world has torn apart. This question is explored as she tells the story of a relationship between an American Jewish woman and an American Palestinian man that has to...
Whichever direction you face in Qalqilya there is concrete. The entire town is surrounded by Israel's Apartheid Wall which blocks the view, restricts access in and out of the city and generally makes the lives of Palestinians there a misery.
In...
Heather Shroud introduces us to a whole host of characters in her novel Abraham's Children. We first meet the affected young Fida as she embarks on a trip to Palestine. With her Palestinian father absent from her life, her roots have been shrouded...
The announcement of this year's Palestine Book Awards shortlist coincided painfully with the Israeli offensive, Operation Protective Edge, an assault which has left to date over two thousand Palestinians massacred.
Gaza Writes Back, a collection...
When reading Susan Abulhawa's collection of poetry titled My Voice Sought the Wind, I made the mistake of going in with traditional Arabic poetry in mind, as some have compared her to Mahmoud Darwish. This made everything that much more harsh and...
Born in Jerusalem on February 25, 1929, during the British Mandate of Palestine, the author, Issa Boullata, a prominent Palestinian scholar, writer and translator of Arabic literature living in Montreal, shares with us a memoir of his childhood...
December 2008. The deadly Israeli assault on Gaza, lasting three weeks as the Strip was invaded by land, sea and air known as Operation Cast Lead sets the theme in John Wight's novel as he explores two different individuals on each side of the...
In the summer of 2011 award-winning Canadian filmmaker and photographer Afzal Huda was given a map depicting areas in Palestine most affected by the Apartheid Wall. Huda spent three weeks capturing life in what has now become an "open-air prison",...
