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Sitti and the Cats : A Tale of Friendship by Sally Bahous

Encyclopedia of the Palestinians By Philip Matar

Jordanians, Palestinians, & the Hashemite Kingdom in the Middle East Peace Process By Adnan Abu Odeh
This is a powerful and important book that tackles controversial issues ....

Out of Place : A Memoir By Edward Said
A provocative journey examining complexities of exile and mysteries of families. Stunning prose, unforgettably honest and beautiful.

Fateful Triangle : The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians By Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's seminal tome on Mideast politics has become a classic in the fields of political science and Mideast affairs.

Blood Brothers By Elias Chacour
It is an honest account of the situation and the people, places, and encounters in the book are real.

All That Remains : The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 By Walid Khalidi
An excellent, thoroughly documented account of Palestinian genocide by the state of Israel.

Bible and Sword : England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour By Barbara Tuchman
Explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state--and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today.

Drinking the Sea at Gaza : Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege By Amira Hass
In what is sure to be a controversial book, Israeli reporter Amira Hass offers a rare portrait of the Palestinians in Gaza.

The Question of Palestine By Edward Said
Said offers a comparatively moderate view of the conflict and its possible solutions, giving no excuse for terrorism on either side and no quarter for brutality.

Arafat : From Defender to Dictator By Said Aburish
Judged by how the West now views him, Arafat has undergone one of the fastest transformations of any public figure in recorded history.

The Invention of Ancient Israel : The Silencing of Palestinian History By Keith Whitelam
Finally someone has the nerve to address a subject that has been hidden from the Western World for so long.

This Side of Peace By Hanan Ashrawi
A Palestinian leader gives her own candid account of the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, with an insider's view of the complexities, compromises, and secret negotiations.

Mandate Days : British Lives in Palestine, 1918-1948 By A. Sherman
Thousands of British men and women lived and worked in Palestine at the time. Here is their story, written largely in their own words, with honesty, humor, and occasional bitterness, against a background of tragic and violent events

Justice and Only Justice : A Palestinian Theology of Liberation By Naim Ateek
This captivating bestseller by a clergyman and leader of the Palestine Christian community examines the problems and prospects for Palestinians, Jews, and Christians in the Middle East.

I Am a Palestinian Christian By Mitri Raheb
Raheb, a Christian pastor in Bethlehem, explores the recent history of the Palestinian Christians, and the complex meeting of the world's three major monotheistic religions.

After the Last Sky : Palestinian Lives By Edward Said
A very personal text, and a very moving one, about an internal struggle: the anguish of living with displacement, with exile. . . . The most beautiful piece of prose . . . about what it means to be a Palestinian.

Palestine and the Palestinians By Samih Farsoun
A sweeping social, economic, ideological, and political history of the Palestinian people from antiquity to the present.

Children of Israel, Children of Palestine : Our Own True Stories By Laurel Holliday
Israeli Jews and Palestinians appear side by side for the first time in this remarkable book to share powerful feelings and reflections on growing up in one of the world's longest and most dangerous conflicts.

The History of Ancient Palestine By Gosta Ahlstrom
The history of the people of Palestine from the earliest times to Alexander's conquest, reconstructs the major epochs and events through analysis of social, political, military, and economic phenomena.

Sleeping on a Wire : Conversations With Palestinians in Israel By David Grossman
A personal journey into the world of the Arab citizens living in Israel depicts the painful dilemma of a people being torn between conflicting identities as they are shunned by both Jews and Palestinians.

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