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  • Cover image of book Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine by Nada Elia
    Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine - by Nada Elia

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780745347479 | ISBN 10: 0745347479

    An inspiring and intersectional re-imagining of the path to liberation in Palestine.   How is the struggle for Palestinian freedom bound up in other freedom struggles, and how are activists coming together globally to achieve justice and l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unsilencing Gaza: Reflections on Resistance by Sara Roy
    Unsilencing Gaza: Reflections on Resistance - by Sara Roy

    £19.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780745341378 | ISBN 10: 0745341373

    Gaza, the centre of Palestinian nationalism and resistance to the occupation, is the linchpin of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the key to its resolution. Since 2005, Israel has deepened the isolation of the territory, severing it almost comple ... more

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  • Cover image of book Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation by Raja Shehadeh
    Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation - by Raja Shehadeh

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788163071 | ISBN 10: 1788163079

    In Going Home, Orwell Prize winning author Raja Shehadeh travels Ramallah and records the changing face of the city. Walking along the streets he grew up in, he tells the stories of the people, the relationships, the houses, and the businesses that w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Palestine in Black and White by Mohammad Sabaaneh
    Palestine in Black and White - by Mohammad Sabaaneh

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780863569401 | ISBN 10: 0863569404

    Palestine in Black and White is an intimate and powerful portrayal of life under occupation from one of the most talented cartoonists working today.   Mohammad Sabaaneh has gained worldwide renown for his black and white sketches. His stark ge ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ahed Tamimi: A Girl Who Fought Back by Manal Tamimi, Paul Heron, Paul Morris and Peter Lahti
    Ahed Tamimi: A Girl Who Fought Back - by Manal Tamimi, Paul Heron, Paul Morris and Peter Lahti

    £13.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9789188441263 | ISBN 10: 9188441261

    Ahed Tamimi received prominent media coverage internationally when she was arrested by the Israeli Occupation authorities shortly before Christmas 2017. Israeli soldiers forced their way into the Tamimi’s home at night time, and arrested Nariman an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense by Marcello Di Cintio
    Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense - by Marcello Di Cintio

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780863569807 | ISBN 10: 0863569803

    Across Palestine, from the Allenby Bridge and Ramallah, to Jerusalem and Gaza, Marcello Di Cintio has met with writers, poets, librarians, booksellers and readers, finding extraordinary stories in every corner. Stories of how revolutionary writing is ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature by Various writers
    This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature - by Various writers

    £16.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408884980 | ISBN 10: 1408884984

    The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008. Bringing together writers from all corners of the globe, it aims to help Palestinians break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupation, to strengthen their artistic link ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine by Ben Ehrenreich
    The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine - by Ben Ehrenreich

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783783113 | ISBN 10: 1783783117

    This is a book about Palestine today. It is neither apologetic nor romanticized, but a powerful and brilliantly realized scream of a book, scorching and tender, from a journalist whose anger and empathy burn through every word.   Over the past thr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine by Raja Shehadeh
    Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine - by Raja Shehadeh

    £14.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781256534 | ISBN 10: 1781256535

    As a young boy, Raja Shehadeh was entranced by a forbidden Israeli postage stamp in his uncle's album, intrigued by tales of a green land beyond the border. Impossible then to know what Israel would come to mean to him, or to foresee the future occup ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty: The Husaynis 1700-1948 by Ilan Pappe
    The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty: The Husaynis 1700-1948 - by Ilan Pappe

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780863564536 | ISBN 10: 0863564534

    The Husayni family of Jerusalem dominated Palestinian history for 250 years, from the Ottoman times through to the end of the British Mandate. At the height of the family’s political influence, positions in Jerusalem could only be obtained through ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shell-Shocked: On the Ground Under Israel
    Shell-Shocked: On the Ground Under Israel's Gaza Assault - by Mohammed Omer

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781608465132 | ISBN 10: 1608465136

    Operation Protective Edge, launched in early July 2014, was the third major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip in six years. It was also the most deadly. By the conclusion of hostilities some seven weeks later, 2,200 of Gaza’s population had been kill ... more

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  • Cover image of book Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation by Tom Sperlinger
    Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation - by Tom Sperlinger

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782796374 | ISBN 10: 1782796371

    Is 'Romeo and Juliet' really a love story, or is it a play about young people living in dangerous circumstances? How might life under occupation produce a new reading of 'Julius Caesar'? What choices must a group of Palestinian students make, when pu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Return: A Palestinian Memoir by Ghada Karmi
    Return: A Palestinian Memoir - by Ghada Karmi

    £16.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781688427 | ISBN 10: 1781688427

    An extraordinary memoir of exile and the impossibility of finding home, from the author of In Search of Fatima.  'The journey filled me with bitterness and grief. I remember looking down on a nighttime Tel Aviv from the windows of a place takin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation by Vijay Prashad (Editor)
    Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation - by Vijay Prashad (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784780678 | ISBN 10: 1784780677

    Impassioned and intimate writing to Palestinians from celebrated American writers.   Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s seven-week bombing campaign and ground invasion of Gaza in the summer of 2014, resulted in half a million displaced Gazans ... more

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  • Cover image of book Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation by Mateo Hoke and Cate Malek (Editors)
    Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation - by Mateo Hoke and Cate Malek (Editors)

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784780500 | ISBN 10: 1784780502

    What is life really like in Gaza and the West Bank?   For more than six decades, Israel and Palestine have been the center of one of the world’s most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises. In Palestine Speaks men and women f ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Year on Fire Mountain: An Occupation Diary by Anna Habibti
    A Year on Fire Mountain: An Occupation Diary - by Anna Habibti

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781502822291 | ISBN 10: 1502822296

    Explosive toilets, stuffed giraffes, and "special milk".... Welcome to the Palestine that rarely makes it to the news.   A Year on Fire Mountain is Anna Habibti's diary of her year in Nablus, one of the most isolated cities in the West Bank of occu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love Wins: Palestinian Perseverance Behind Walls by Afzal Huda (Photography), conceived by Waleed Abu-Ghazeleh
    Love Wins: Palestinian Perseverance Behind Walls - by Afzal Huda (Photography), conceived by Waleed Abu-Ghazeleh

    £14.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781566569545 | ISBN 10: 1566569540

    A STUNNING SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS MORE POWERFUL THAN WORDS  During the summer of 2011, armed with a camera and a map, award-winning Canadian filmmaker and photographer Afzal Huda set out to chronicle the Separation Wall in Palestine. His aim w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Occupation Diaries by Raja Shehadeh
    Occupation Diaries - by Raja Shehadeh

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781250174 | ISBN 10: 1781250170

    Life in Palestine today - what it is really like - day to day, now shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2013   It is often the smallest details of daily life that tell us the most. And so it is under occupation in Palestine. What most of us take f ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Voice Is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance by David A. McDonald
    My Voice Is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance - by David A. McDonald

    £22.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780822354796 | ISBN 10: 0822354799

    In My Voice Is My Weapon, David A. McDonald rethinks the conventional history of the Palestinian crisis through an ethnographic analysis of music and musicians, protest songs, and popular culture. Charting a historical narrative that stretches from t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Like a Straw Bird it Follows Me: And Other Poems by Ghassan Zaqtan; Translated by Fady Joudah
    Like a Straw Bird it Follows Me: And Other Poems - by Ghassan Zaqtan; Translated by Fady Joudah

    £13.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780300198409 | ISBN 10: 030019840x

    In this inspired translation of Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, Ghassan Zaqtan's tenth and most recent poetry collection, along with selected earlier poems, Fady Joudah brings to English-language readers the best work by one of the most important an ... more

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  • Cover image of book You Can
    You Can't Hide the Sun: A Journey Through Palestine - by John McCarthy

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780552774475 | ISBN 10: 0552774472

    Held hostage for many years by terrorists in Lebanon, John McCarthy is all too familiar with the pain and injustice of being denied your home. Determined to understand the day-to-day complexities of being a Palestian-Arab in modern-day Israel, he emb ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel by Ilan Pappé
    The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel - by Ilan Pappé

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780300184327 | ISBN 10: 0300184328

    For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the borders of the nation formed at the end of the 1948 conflict. Occupying a precarious middle ground between the Jewish citizens of Israel and the d ... more

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  • Cover image of book Generation Palestine: Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement by Rich Wiles (Editor)
    Generation Palestine: Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement - by Rich Wiles (Editor)

    £17.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780745332437 | ISBN 10: 0745332439

    The unique model of apartheid, colonisation and military occupation that Israel imposes on the Palestinians, along with myriad violations of international law, have made Palestine the moral cause of a generation. Yet many people continue to ask, 'wha ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza by Dervla Murphy
    A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza - by Dervla Murphy

    £16.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781906011475 | ISBN 10: 1906011478

    Over the summer of 2011, in her eightieth year, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters, rich and poor. Used to western reporters dashing in and out of the Strip in times of crisis, th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beyond the Wall: Writing a Path Through Palestine by Bidisha
    Beyond the Wall: Writing a Path Through Palestine - by Bidisha

    £7.00   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857420398 | ISBN 10: 0857420399

    Their voices come from Bethlehem and Hebron. You can hear them from Jerusalem to Nazareth, and witness their protests in Gaza and Ramallah. From the refugee camps in the West Bank, you can hear the voices of the Palestinian people call out to demand ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Was Born There, I Was Born Here by Mouris Barghouti
    I Was Born There, I Was Born Here - by Mouris Barghouti

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781408822470 | ISBN 10: 1408822474

    The sequel to the classic memoir I Saw Ramallah, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here takes up the story in 1998 when Barghouti returned to the Occupied Territories to introduce his Cairo-born son, Tamim, to his Palestinian family.   Ranging freely b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hamas: From Resistance to Government by Paola Caridi
    Hamas: From Resistance to Government - by Paola Caridi

    £15.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781609803827 | ISBN 10: 1609803825

    The Palestinian elections of 2006 changed modern Middle East history — as well as changing the perception of the Israel/Palestine conflict around the world. How, Westerners asked, could a secular people elect a radical Islamist group, one that openly ... more

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  • Cover image of book Leila Khaled: Icon of Palestinian Liberation by Sarah Irving
    Leila Khaled: Icon of Palestinian Liberation - by Sarah Irving

    £14.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780745329512 | ISBN 10: 0745329519

    Dubbed 'the poster girl of Palestinian militancy', Leila Khaled's image flashed across the world after she hijacked a passenger jet in 1969. The picture of a young, determined looking woman with a checkered scarf, clutching an AK-47, was as era-defin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Struggle for Palestinian Civil Rights by Omar Barghouti
    Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Struggle for Palestinian Civil Rights - by Omar Barghouti

    £14.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781608461141 | ISBN 10: 1608461149

    International boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) efforts helped topple South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime. In this urgent book, Omar Barghouti makes the case for a rights-based BDS campaign to stop Israel’s rapacious occupation, colonizatio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Palestine Betrayed by Efraim Karsh
    Palestine Betrayed - by Efraim Karsh

    £14.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780300172348 | ISBN 10: 0300172346

    The 1947 UN resolution to partition Palestine irrevocably changed the political landscape of the Middle East, giving rise to six full-fledged wars between Arabs and Jews, countless armed clashes, blockades, and terrorism, as well as a profound shatte ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Palestinian Communist Party 1919-1948: Arab and Jew in the Struggle for Internationalism by Musa Budeiri
    The Palestinian Communist Party 1919-1948: Arab and Jew in the Struggle for Internationalism - by Musa Budeiri

    £17.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781608460724 | ISBN 10: 160846072x

    Musa Budeiri’s history of the Palestine Communist Party is the only English-language study of the heroic — and ultimately, unsuccessful — attempt to create a political alternative to Zionism in Palestine based on class solidarity of Palestinian Arabs ... more

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  • Cover image of book What it Means to be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood by Dina Matar (Editor)
    What it Means to be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood - by Dina Matar (Editor)

    £14.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848853638 | ISBN 10: 1848853637

    What It Means to be Palestinian is a narrative of narratives, a collection of personal stories, remembered feelings and reconstructed experiences by different Palestinians whose lives were changed and shaped by history. Their stories are told chronol ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Rift in Time: Travels of My Ottoman Uncle by Raja Shehadeh
    A Rift in Time: Travels of My Ottoman Uncle - by Raja Shehadeh

    £14.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846683305 | ISBN 10: 1846683300

    From the Orwell Prize winning author of Palestinian Walks comes the poignant and revealing true story of his remarkable great uncle's political struggles.  Raja Shehadeh is the most celebrated Palestinian writer working today. To his surp ... more

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  • Cover image of book Raising Dust: A Cultural History of Dance in Palestine by Nicholas Rowe
    Raising Dust: A Cultural History of Dance in Palestine - by Nicholas Rowe

    £31.50   hardback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781845119430 | ISBN 10: 1845119436

    Dance in Palestine has a history as complex and contentious as the land itself. Whether dismissed as bacchantic madness by Bible tourists in the 19th Century, revived and glorified by Zionists, Pan-Arabists and Palestinian Nationalists in the 20th Ce ... more

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  • Cover image of book Peaceful Resistance: Building a Palestinian University Under Occupation by Gabi Baramki
    Peaceful Resistance: Building a Palestinian University Under Occupation - by Gabi Baramki

    £22.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780745329314 | ISBN 10: 0745329314

    This book tells the remarkable story of Birzeit University, Palestine's oldest university in the Occupied Territories. Founded against the backdrop of occupation, it is open to all students, irrespective of income. Putting the study of democracy and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Palestine Papers: 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict by Doreen Ingrams
    Palestine Papers: 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict - by Doreen Ingrams

    £13.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906011383 | ISBN 10: 1906011389

    Palestine Papers gives the vivid, inside story of the creation of the British Mandate of Palestine, formed with the divergent objectives of fostering Zionism and protecting the rights of the native Palestinians. This is hostory caught in the making: ... more

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  • Cover image of book Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life (New edition) by Sari Nusseibeh with Anthony David
    Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life (New edition) - by Sari Nusseibeh with Anthony David

    £15.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781905559145 | ISBN 10: 1905559143

    Sari Nusseibeh's autobiography is the story of his country.  Sari Nusseibeh's family history is inextricably interwoven with the city of Jerusalem, and his own life with the Palestinian nationalist struggle.  A dreamer by nature, he w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps by Julie Peteet
    Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps - by Julie Peteet

    £18.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780812220704 | ISBN 10: 0812220706

    Nearly half of the world's eight million Palestinians are registered refugees, having faced partition and exile. Landscape of Hope and Despair examines this refugee experience in Lebanon through the medium of spatial practices and identity, set again ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji Al-Ali by Naji Al-Ali
    A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji Al-Ali - by Naji Al-Ali

    £10.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844673650 | ISBN 10: 1844673650

    First collection by leading Palestinian political cartoonist, introduced by the author of Palestine. With an introduction by Joe Sacco.  Naji al-Ali grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Palestinian Art: From 1850 to the Present by Kamal Boullata
    Palestinian Art: From 1850 to the Present - by Kamal Boullata

    £25.00   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780863566486 | ISBN 10: 0863566480

    Kamal Boullata offers the first insider's study of Palestinian art. The only authoritative account in English yet published, this scholarly analysis presents insights into the development of Palestinian art before and after the cataclysmic events of ... more

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  • Cover image of book A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples by Ilan Pappe
    A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples - by Ilan Pappe

    £21.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780521683159 | ISBN 10: 0521683157

    Ilan Pappe's book traces the history of Palestine from the Ottomans in the nineteenth century, through the British Mandate, the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, and the subsequent wars and conflicts which have dominated this troubled reg ... more

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  • Cover image of book Palestinian Art by Gannit Ankori
    Palestinian Art - by Gannit Ankori

    £25.00   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781861892591 | ISBN 10: 1861892594

    Turmoil and violence have defined the lives of Palestinian people over the last few decades, yet in the midst of the chaos artists live and thrive, creating little-seen work that is a powerful response to their situation. Gannit Ankori's Palestinian ... more

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