Davidi, Guy
Summary: Bil'in villager Emad Burnat documents the Palestinian struggle when he buys a camera to record the birth of his youngest son and he then films the turmoil and destruction happening around him as his village is threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2013
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIV1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FIV
Dalin, David G.
Summary: In 1921, the beneficiary of an appointment the British would live to regret, Haj Amin al-Husseini became the mufti of Jerusalem, the most eminent and influential Islamic leader in the Middle East. For years, al-Husseini fomented violence in the region against the Jews he loathed and wished to destroy. Forced out in 1937, he eventually found his way to the country whose legions he desperately...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 DALPratt, David.
Summary: From the War of the Stones in the 1980s, to the eruption of the al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, and the ultimate rise of Hamas, this is an eyewitness tour through the Islamic hotbeds, beleaguered refugee camps, and bomb-makers' dens of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Above all, it is a gripping and graphic account of a people's struggle to shake off oppression as viewed from the ground zero of besieged...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Casemate 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.04 PRAShlaim, Avi.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.04 SHLShipler, David K.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 1986