Shehadeh, Raja
Summary: "A moving account of one man's border crossings-both literal and figurative-by the award-winning author of Palestinian Walks, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six Day War In what has become a classic of Middle Eastern literature, Raja Shehadeh, in Palestinian Walks, wrote of his treks through the hills surrounding Ramallah over a period of three decades under Israel's occupation. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ici et ailleurs: In this meditation on how cinema records history, the filmmakers, members of the Dziga Vertov Group, contrast a French family's life with an impressionistic portrait of war in Palestine, as reflected through television, books, and other media.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gaumont vidéo 2012
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Summary: One of America's leading attorneys offers an impassioned defense of the state of Israel, arguing that, although the country is not perfect, it remains the only outpost of democracy in the Middle East, answering critics who accuse Israel of being an imperialist power and documenting the facts about the nature of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 DERWilliams, Emma.
Summary: In August, 2000, Emma Williams arrived with her three small children in Jerusalem to join her husband and to work as a doctor. A month later, the Palestinian intifada erupted. For the next three years, she was to witness an astonishing series of events in which hundreds of thousands of lives, including her own, were turned upside down. Williams lived on the very border of East and West...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, EMMA WILSummary: We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon contains poems written in response to the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon together with new ones rising from the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon. Following a great tradition of poetry throughout history, this book shows the vast conscience and lyrical spirit of resistance on the part of poets in support of the dignity, rights, and humanity of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Offers a wide-ranging anthology of Palestinian writers and artists. This collection constitutes a collective effort to organize and center Palestinian voices in the ongoing struggle. As political discourse shifts toward futurism as a means of reimagining a better way of living, beyond the violence and limitations of colonialism, Light in Gaza imagines what the future of Gaza could be, while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2022
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 953.1 LIGDun, Aidan Andrew.
Summary: "Through the story of two lovers, Mosh and Jalilah, this verse novel encapsulates the personal tragedy of the Palestine-Israel conflict. Set in the popular music culture of modern Palestine, using rap rhythms and the sonnet form, Aidan Andrew Dun s new book is verbally accomplished and rhythmically creative, and yet gripping to read as the story unfolds in a fast-moving narrative of twists and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNHermez, Sami
Summary: "In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian village of Kufr Ra'i. From Sireen's early life growing up in the shadow of the '67 War and her family's work as farmers caring for their land, to the involvement of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redwood Press 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 HERThrall, Nathan
Summary: "Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for the school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer in a horrific accident. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos-the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.95 SHEHill, Marc Lamont
Summary: "In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how one-sided pro-Israel policies reflect the truth-bending grip of authoritarianism on both Israel and the United States. Except for Palestine argues that progressives and liberals who oppose regressive policies on immigration, racial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022
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Summary: "Drawing on historical documents, interviews, and private diaries and letters, as well as his own family's story, My Promised Land is a riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and profound historical dimensions. As Ar Shavit examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, he asks difficult but important questions: why did Israel come to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.05 SHAYakhlif, Yaḥyá.
Summary: A Palestinian novel on the 1948 Arab-Israeli War in which Arabs tried unsuccessfully to crush the newly independent state of Israel. It is told through the eyes of the Arab inhabitants of a Palestinian village.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 200.956 FEIFeiler, Bruce S.
Summary: "At a time when America debates its values and the world braces for religious war, Feiler travels ten thousand miles through the heart of the Middle East and examines the question: Is religion tearing us apart, or can it bring us together? Taking readers to sites not seen by Westerners for decades, Feiler's journey uncovers little-known details about the common roots of Judaism, Christianity,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 200.956 FEISummary: Elia Suleiman's critically-acclaimed satire chronicles the absurdities of life and love on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli border.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Entertainment 2005
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Summary: "Provides a rare historical insight into the tragic changes taking place in Palestine"--Jimmy Carter (from cover).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.953 SHEBellow, Saul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1998