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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 25 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Light in Gaza: Essays for the Future by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing and Mike Merryman-Lotze (Editors)
    Light in Gaza: Essays for the Future - by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing and Mike Merryman-Lotze (Editors)

    £21.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781642596991 | ISBN 10: 164259699x

    Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a powerful contribution to understanding Palestinian experience.  Gaza, home to two million people, continues to face suffocating conditions impos ... more

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  • Cover image of book Making Palestine
    Making Palestine's History: Women's Testimonies - by Jehan Helou

    £15.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780851249056 | ISBN 10: 0851249051

    "Jehan Helou’s book tells stories of women freedom fighters in their own words, stories untold except maybe to their families and in female circles, even though they are stories that helped determine the course of the Palestinian cause. Much more t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan
    Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said - by Timothy Brennan

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526614643 | ISBN 10: 1526614642

    **WINNER OF A PALESTINE BOOK AWARD 2021**  Drawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan's Places of Mind is the first comprehensive biography of Said, one of the most controversial and celebrated intellect ... 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 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

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781256541 | ISBN 10: 1781256543

    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.He couldn't have known then what Israel would come to mean to him, or to foresee the future oc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Young Palestinians Speak: Living Under Occupation by Anthony Robinson and Annemarie Young
    Young Palestinians Speak: Living Under Occupation - by Anthony Robinson and Annemarie Young

    £16.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781566560153 | ISBN 10: 1566560152

    PALESTINIAN CHILDREN SHARE THEIR DREAMS AND FEARS FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR COUNTRY.  In Palestine today, a second generation of children and young people is growing up experiencing life under occupation. These are children who know only fear ... 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 Poems for Palestine by Maher J. Massis (Editor)
    Poems for Palestine - by Maher J. Massis (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781843915515 | ISBN 10: 1843915510

    I looked at his thin, aged face / Each line represented a massacre / Each wrinkle, a dead son / Each groove, a year of occupation.   Poems for Palestine was launched as a project aiming to collect together verse written by the people of Palestine, ... 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 The Drone Eats with Me: Diaries from a City Under Fire by Atef Abu Saif, with a Foreword by Noam Chomsky
    The Drone Eats with Me: Diaries from a City Under Fire - by Atef Abu Saif, with a Foreword by Noam Chomsky

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781905583713 | ISBN 10: 1905583710

    On 7 July 2014, in an apparent response to the murder of three teenagers, Israel launched a major offensive against the Gaza Strip, lasting 51 days, killing 2145 Palestinians (578 of them children), injuring over 11,000, and demolishing 17,200 homes. ... 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 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 Voices from the West Bank: Young People Living Under Occupation by Chris Jones and Michael Lavalette
    Voices from the West Bank: Young People Living Under Occupation - by Chris Jones and Michael Lavalette

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781905192823 | ISBN 10: 1905192827

    Over 60% of Palestinians living in the West Bank are under 20 years old. It is from their experiences and stories that Voices from the West Bank explores this extraordinary beseiged society and the Palestinians' enduring resistance to a ruthless occu ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza
    My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story - by Ramzy Baroud

    £21.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780745328812 | ISBN 10: 0745328814

    Gaza is the frontline in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and rarely out of the news, this book explores the daily lives of the people in the region, giving us an insight into what is at risk in each round of violence. Ramzy Baroud te ... 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 My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet
    My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century - by Adina Hoffman

    £16.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780300164275 | ISBN 10: 0300164270

    Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist's eye for detail, this book tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged.   Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya and was force ... 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 Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine by Raja Shehadeh
    Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine - by Raja Shehadeh

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781846682506 | ISBN 10: 1846682509

    An extraordinary and moving memoir by the award-winning author of Palestinian Walks - updated with a new foreword.  Raja Shehadeh was born into a successful Palestinian family with a beautiful house overlooking the Mediterranean. When the sta ... more

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  • Cover image of book A River Dies of Thirst: Diaries by Mahmoud Darwish
    A River Dies of Thirst: Diaries - by Mahmoud Darwish

    £10.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780863566349 | ISBN 10: 0863566340

    Mahmoud Darwish is one of the most acclaimed contemporary poets in the Arab world, and is often cited as the poetic voice of the Palestinian people.   During the summer of 2006, Darwish was in Ramallah. He recorded his observations and feelin ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story by Ghada Karmi
    In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story - by Ghada Karmi

    £10.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844673681 | ISBN 10: 1844673685

    Ghada Karmi’s acclaimed memoir relates her childhood in Palestine, the flight to Britain after the catastrophe of 1948, and coming of age in the coffee-bars of Golders Green, the middle-class Jewish quarter in North London. A gentle humor describes t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
    The Lemon Tree - by Sandy Tolan

    £10.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780552155144 | ISBN 10: 0552155144

    In the summer of 1967, Bashir - a young Palestinian man - knocks on the door of his childhood home in the town of Ramla in Israel, a home from which his family was driven some twenty years earlier. The door is opened by a young Jewish woman, Dalia, w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Butterfly
    The Butterfly's Burden - by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Fady Joudah

    £15.00   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781852247881 | ISBN 10: 1852247886

    Mahmoud Darwish was the poetic voice of the Palestinian people. One of the most acclaimed contemporary poets in the Arab world, he was also a prominent spokesman for human rights who has spent most of his life in exile.   In his early work, the fe ... 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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