Perfect Peace is a documentary photography book by Kai Wiedenhöfer that portrays the daily lives, struggles, and resilience of Palestinians living in the occupied territories. Through powerful black-and-white photographs accompanied by contextual text by Steffan Rozenberg, the book documents Palestinian society from the first Intifada to the second Intifada. The work provides a visual and huma…
Encyclopedia of the Palestinians, edited by Philip Mattar, provides a comprehensive and authoritative reference on the history, culture, society, politics, and notable figures of the Palestinian people. This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars and includes detailed entries on key historical events, cultural traditions, political movements, and biographies of influential P…
This is Rosemary Sayigh's seminal work, chronicling the history of the Palestinian people through in-depth interviews with refugees in Lebanese camps. Using an anthropological and political approach, Sayigh traces the transformation of Palestinian society from traditional peasants to a group involved in a modern revolutionary movement. The book depicts the experiences, struggles, identities, an…
Written by Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States, this book offers an in-depth analysis of the Palestinian–Israeli conflict and the path to a just and sustainable peace. Carter outlines the diplomatic challenges, Israel's policies in the West Bank and Gaza, the United States' role in the peace process, and the political obstacles that make a two-state solution difficult to achie…
The authors, swedish journalists spent five months in lebanon interviewing palestinian women in refugee camps during 1978-1979. besidestheir own personal impressions, they include description, quotes from their interviews which is full political passion. going through the accounta we get a feel of the oppression and resistence of stateless palestinians and the exploding civil war in lebanon. we…
Despite all the literature on the Arab-Israeli conflict in recent years, there has been little nonpolemical treatment of Palestinian social and political life. The contributors to this volume believe that a richer, more complex view of the interplay between Palestinian society and politics in necessary.
The late summer headlines of a landmark peace accord between the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization stunned and delighted citizens of conscience from every walk of life and from all over the world. Here, at last, were the first glimmerings of harmony for a region whose bloody, intractable conflicts between Arab and Jew had outlived hot and cold wars alike to become a…
This book is not about suicide bombers. Tending one's fields, visiting a relative, going to the hospital: for ordinary Palestinians, such everyday activities require negotiating permits and passes, curfews and closures, "sterile roads" and "seam zones"―bureaucratic hurdles ultimately as deadly as outright military incursion. Not since the late Edward Said has there been such an articulate Ara…
Morris' earlier work exposed the realities of how 700,000 Palestinians became refugees during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. While the focus of this edition remains the war and exodus, new archival material considers what happened in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa, and how these events led to the collapse of urban Palestine. Revealing battles and atrocities that contributed to the disintegration of rur…
This book consists of two sections. The first section focused on the rise of Hamas as the most important and popular group in Palestine especially after the general elections of 2006. Using social movement theories as the framework for analysis, this section seeks to investigate the causes and consequences of the rise of Hamas. It is examined the causes of the continuing rise of Hamas by lookin…