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Palestine syllabus
Books for people who want to know the history, the context, and the culture of Palestine.
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
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4.55 avg rating — 9,940 ratings
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The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of Gaza and the Occupied Territories
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
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Mornings in Jenin
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Susan Abulhawa (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 50,091 ratings
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Anno 2020
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James Morcan (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
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4.49 avg rating — 31,492 ratings
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Gate of the Sun
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Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
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Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries
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The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
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I Saw Ramallah
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Wild Thorns
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Gaza Writes Back
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Refaat Alareer (Editor/Contributor)
4.58 avg rating — 1,175 ratings
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Touch
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Forest of Noise: Poems
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Mosab Abu Toha (Goodreads Author)
4.71 avg rating — 2,804 ratings
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Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities
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Ashley Dawson (Editor)
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Ten Myths About Israel
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4.40 avg rating — 5,505 ratings
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If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose
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Breaking Poems
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4.38 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Minor Detail
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Code Name: Butterfly
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3.61 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights
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4.16 avg rating — 404 ratings
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The Question of Palestine
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4.37 avg rating — 2,920 ratings
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Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair
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4.17 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide
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4.27 avg rating — 340 ratings
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ولدت هناك .. ولدت هنا
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4.10 avg rating — 4,933 ratings
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Raising Dust: A Cultural History of Dance in Palestine
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Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa & Other Stories
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4.43 avg rating — 1,021 ratings
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War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification
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The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017
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4.49 avg rating — 31,492 ratings
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The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians
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4.23 avg rating — 88 ratings
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One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
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4.25 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
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4.67 avg rating — 1,222 ratings
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Rehearsing Freedom: The Story of a Theatre in Palestine
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The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries
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4.36 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom
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4.31 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Blue Between Sky and Water
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Susan Abulhawa (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 7,364 ratings
score: 77,
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19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
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Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
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In Our Power: U.S. Students Organize for Justice in Palestine
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Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (A Far Corner Book)
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Baddawi
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Leila Abdelrazaq (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 683 ratings
score: 72,
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The Battle for Justice in Palestine
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4.23 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
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From India to Palestine: Essays in Solidarity
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Githa Hariharan (Editor)
4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 69,
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The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge
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4.30 avg rating — 331 ratings
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The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust
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4.26 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy
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4.30 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Namaste Sharon: Hindutva and Sharonism Under US Hegemony
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Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
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Israel/Palestine and the Queer International
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Geographies of Light
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Israel's Dead Soul
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My Life in the PLO: The Inside Story of the Palestinian Struggle
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What It Means to be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood
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Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel & the Palestinians
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Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
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Liberation and Democratization: The South African and Palestinian National Movements
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Lives of Rain: Poems
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So What: New and Selected Poems 1971-2005
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4.34 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Poets for Palestine
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Rain Inside
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All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948
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Walid Khalidi (Editor)
4.72 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza
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The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem
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The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
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Dishonest Broker: The Role of the United States in Palestine and Israel
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A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples
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Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State
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The Gun and the Olive Branch
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Married to Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine
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Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948
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The Invention of the Jewish People
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Hidden Histories: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean
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The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist (Interlink World Fiction Series)
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Inside the Night: A Modern Arabic Novel
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Palestine
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Footnotes in Gaza
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Sitti's Secrets
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My People Shall Live: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary
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Behind the Wall: Life, Love, and Struggle in Palestine
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Embroidery from Palestine (fabric folios) /anglais
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A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali
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Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society
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Born Palestinian, Born Black
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Zaatar Diva
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Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen
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In the Presence of Absence
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Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
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Boycott!: The Academy and Justice for Palestine (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 4)
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The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction
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The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development
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Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine
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Remi Kanazi (Goodreads Author)
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My Voice Sought the Wind
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Susan Abulhawa (Goodreads Author)
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The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian's Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker
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