10 Books That Make Palestine Personal
Across memoir, fiction, and political commentary, this reading list gives us the language we need to talk about Palestine today.
At a moment when conversations about Palestine feel urgent and often fractured, reading offers a way to recentre understanding. These books place Palestine in the historical, the personal, and the revolutionary—10 selections of memoir, fiction, and political commentary that give us the language we need to talk about Palestine today...
‘The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine’, Rachid Khalidi
‘The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine’ is a necessary read. Rachid Khalidi provides us with a comprehensive history of Palestinian history from the 1917 Balfour Declaration through Israeli assaults against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza up to 2017. It is the winner of the 2020 Palestine Book Award.
‘Daybreak In Gaza’, Edited by Mahmoud Muna & Matthew Teller
‘Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal’, Mohammed El-Kurd
'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’, Omar El-Akkad
‘Men in the Sun’, Ghassan Kanafani
‘Salt Houses’, Hala Alyan
'Mornings in Jenin’, Susan Abulhawa
'The Called Me A Lioness’, Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri
‘Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement’, Angela Y. Davis
‘A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy’, Nathan Thrall
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