An on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements, showing how one of the world's most contested landscapes was produced by unexpected conflicts and collaborations among widely divergent actors.
The Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1850-1948
by Awad Halabi
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477326312
Pub Date: January 17th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
An innovative approach to modern Palestinian history as viewed through a study of the Prophet Moses festival from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
The only book in English that recounts how the Islamic Movement in Israel originated and developed into a popular grassroots organization focused on protecting the Palestinian people, their land, and their religious sites.
?Izz al-Din al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Mark Sanagan
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9781477320563
Pub Date: May 3rd, 2020
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
This is the first English-language book-length biography of ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam, sometimes seen as a “Che Guevara of the Middle East”; understanding him is a key to understanding the region, particularly Palestinian nationalism.
Bringing to light the origins of an important national cinema, this book examines Palestinian filmmaking during the long 1970s, and how it sustained a revolution and continues to inspire in a new century.
A Century of Palestinian-Israeli Joint Nonviolence
by Sheila H. Katz
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477310625
Pub Date: November 8th, 2016
Format: Paperback
307 Pages
Surveying the initiatives of more than five hundred groups across the past century, this timely book reveals how thousands of ordinary Israelis and Palestinians have worked together to end violence and forge connections between their peoples.
This innovative reexamination of thirty pivotal episodes in the Arab-Israeli conflict, beginning with the 1919 Faysal-Weizmann Agreement and ending with the 2008 Abu Mazen-Olmert talks, reveals both missed opportunities and realistic possibilities to nego
Religious Student-Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces
by Elisheva Rosman-Stollman
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780292758520
Pub Date: May 15th, 2015
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
Challenging conventional assumptions about religious believers, this study reveals how religious student-soldiers negotiate the sometimes conflicting goals and norms of their Orthodox Jewish faith and the Israel Defense Forces in which they serve.
Edited by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and Mary Evelyn Hocking
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780292771833
Pub Date: November 6th, 2014
Format: eBook
352 Pages
The determination of ordinary people to end regional and global conflicts is powerful despite the forces opposing them. The Struggle for Peace explores how average citizens on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian...
This history of the long-overlooked Palestine Broadcasting Service (1936–1948) examines the role of government-sponsored radio in shaping Arab political and social life in the wake of British colonialism.
