Palestine Reading Group by

The Landscape of Palestine (1999)

mortadahaidar — 2024-04-18 09:55:55 UTC

Includes a prologue by Edward Said

Peace and Its Discontents (2012)

mortadahaidar — 2024-04-18 10:00:41 UTC

The Architecture of Erasure (Saree Makidisi, 2010)

mortadahaidar — 2024-04-18 10:09:43 UTC

Palestine and the Arab–Israeli Conflict (Karim Makdisi, 2018)

mortadahaidar — 2024-04-18 10:14:26 UTC

Iron Cage : The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (Khalidi, 2007)

mortadahaidar — 2024-04-18 10:26:50 UTC

Requires university access

Rethinking Statehood in Palestine (ed. Farsakh, 2021)

mortadahaidar — 2024-04-18 10:29:03 UTC

Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict After the Second Intifada (ed. Ned Curthoys, 2022)

mortadahaidar — 2024-04-18 10:50:04 UTC

Requires uni access, includes articles from Arab scholars

The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art, and Journalism_ Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut (ed. Rooney & Sakr, 2013)

mortadahaidar — 2024-04-18 10:59:59 UTC

Palestinian Literature: Occupation and Exile (Mir, 2013)

mortadahaidar — 2024-04-18 11:01:05 UTC

Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women (1978)

mortadahaidar — 2024-04-18 11:02:35 UTC

Includes works by Fadwa Toucan, Nazik al-Mala'ika, Etel Adnan and others

Rashid Khalidi-The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

mortadahaidar — 2024-10-11 10:05:44 UTC

Khalidi- Iron Cage : The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (Introduction)

mortadahaidar — 2024-10-11 10:09:58 UTC

Khalidi-Britain's Unfullfilled Mandate (Chapter 2)

mortadahaidar — 2024-10-11 10:23:35 UTC

Fiction

2024-10-29 12:04:31 UTC

A Literary Scandal

2024-10-29 12:05:28 UTC

"No Traces of Life" Israel's Ecocide in Gaza: 2023-2024

kacperradny — 2024-10-30 09:29:32 UTC

I don’t know if you’ve heard of ‘Forensic Architecture’, but they’re a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London (where Sara Ahmed worked before she resigned in protest over student reports of sexual harassment by staff). Their work is a cross between investigative journalism (a lot of which uses digital technology to expose government/news media cover-ups) , architecture, art, and politics and one of their ongoing investigations is on ‘Israel’s Ecocide in Gaza’. In this piece, they use remote sensing, cartographic regression, and 3D modelling to show how Israeli occupation forces’ use of airborne herbicides has impacted Palestinian farmers in 2014. It might be interesting to think through the mechanics of ‘ecocide’ as another dimension to some of the other ideas that have come up in our reading together (as a lot of the specifics goes over the head of this literary researcher).

Exposing Government Cover-Ups With Forensic Architecture

kacperradny — 2024-10-30 09:30:33 UTC

Here is a YouTube video/podcast episode that the Director of Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, did with Ash Sarkar from Novara Media.

Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

kacperradny — 2024-10-30 09:31:46 UTC

Isabella Hammad’s Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative: a lot of my friends have been raving about this one, and it’s high on my list. Hammad delivered this for the Edward W. Said Lecture at Columbia University 9 days before 7 October 2023 and includes an afterword written in 2024.

kacperradny — 2024-10-30 09:32:29 UTC

Jacqueline Rose, The Question of Zion: I’ve only ever read Mothers and heard Rose speak about Oscar Pistorius from On Violence and On Violence Against Women, but I know she’s written on Zionism and would be curious to read her take here.

Mountain Against the Sea : Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture

kacperradny — 2024-11-01 15:34:13 UTC

A series of essays on Palestinian culture, available online. We could decide on a selection of 2 or 3 different essays.

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unigiessen/detail.action?docID=470885

My Voice Is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance

kacperradny — 2024-11-01 15:37:12 UTC

Ethnic Identity of Palestinian Immigrants in the United States : The Role of Material Cultural Artifacts

kacperradny — 2024-11-01 15:39:13 UTC

Women of the Fertile Crescent-Poetry Collection

mortadahaidar — 2024-11-01 15:53:14 UTC

Except for Palestine-The Limits of Progressive Politics

mortadahaidar — 2024-11-01 19:08:21 UTC

Free Palestine Newspaper issues

mortadahaidar — 2024-11-11 11:50:37 UTC

Let's Talk Ghassan: novelist, journalist, thinker, and fighter

reqqasalemqubailat — 2024-11-21 14:26:37 UTC

The power of Ghassan Kanafani’s The Land of Sad Oranges | Teach Palestine

The World After Gaza - Pankaj Mishra (2025)

mortadahaidar — 2025-01-30 11:01:37 UTC

2025-02-07 13:03:50 UTC

From Carthage to Gaza - Palestine at the end of the Imperiocene by Detlev Quintern. Postcolonial Interventions: Vol. IX Issue 2 (June 2024)

Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora

2025-02-25 14:09:41 UTC

These plays are a cosmos of mindscapes, vast and varied in beauty, theme, style and form... And despite their multiplicity in accents, cultures and nationalities, they have an unyielding collective voice.” - Nathalie Handal, from the Introduction

Includes:

Tennis in Nablus by Ismail Khalidi
Keffiyeh/Made in China by Dalia Taha
Plan D by Hannah Khalil
Handala by Abdelfattah Abusrour
Territories by Betty Shamieh
603 by Imad Farajin

The first collection of its kind, Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora brings together work by six dynamic Palestinian playwrights from both occupied Palestine and the Diaspora. These plays take on Palestinian history and culture with irreverence, humor and, above all, an electrifying creativity. This anthology is a vital contribution to world theater, introducing six politically, socially and culturally relevant plays by Palestinian authors.

Why Palestine is a feminist issue-Nicola Pratt et al (2025)

mortadahaidar — 2025-02-28 09:22:53 UTC

6th Meeting FA addition: Investigative Aesthetics

2025-03-03 12:05:35 UTC

The Book of Ramallah (various authors)

mortadahaidar — 2025-03-03 12:38:15 UTC

Commapress-Palestine

mortadahaidar — 2025-03-03 12:41:11 UTC

Lara Deeb - If Only People Knew...(2025)

mortadahaidar — 2025-03-09 10:18:52 UTC

"Writing Palestine 1933-1950" by Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon. Edited by Esther Carmel-Hakim & Nancy Rosenfeld. 2016.

kacperradny — 2025-04-07 08:39:00 UTC

From her immigration to Mandatory Palestine in 1933 until her death in 1950 American-born Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon worked as a reporter for The Palestine Post (later The Jerusalem Post), while freelancing for periodicals in Palestine and abroad. Bar-Adon covered life in towns, kibbutzim and Arab communities of Mandatory Palestine during this period of World War, armed conflict between Arabs and Jews, immigration to Israel of Holocaust survivors. Close to 60 years after her death, this edited collection of Bar-Adon’s writing offers a vivid view both of daily life in the Jewish and Arab communities of pre-State Israel, and of the burning issues of the day.

"For Palestine: Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group"

kacperradny — 2025-04-07 08:41:47 UTC

“I am not afraid to look.” – Tom Hurndall, 2003. On the eve of the invasion of Iraq in February 2003, Tom Hurndall, a photography student at Manchester Metropolitan University, travelled from Manchester to the Middle East to witness the horrors in Iraq and then later in Palestine. Tom was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier on 11 April 2003 whilst attempting to rescue two children trapped by Israeli sniper fire. He later died in hospital on 13 January 2004 without gaining consciousness. He is remembered for his determination to bear witness to the conflict in Palestine and his bravery to capture the atrocities directed towards the suppression of the Palestine people. This book is a collection of lectures written by reputable scholars who offer diverse perspectives on the historical, political and cultural struggles in Palestine. Encompassed in the pages are sixteen chapters produced for the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group. Unlike predecessors of this topic, this book offers a thought-provoking and comprehensive analysis of Palestine, including architectural, cultural, legal, sociological, and psychological questions, providing a larger scope of study that has not yet been done before. Ultimately, this book explores oppression in Palestine and beyond in the Middle East. The vast study and in-depth exploration makes this an ideal book for those who are interested in the Palestine conflict, Zionism, Israel and further conflict in the Middle East, as well as a necessity for those who are studying the topic in education settings.

Documentary films

2025-08-19 15:01:58 UTC

In light of the current events in Palestine, a large number of filmmakers have made their films about Palestine available online for free.

Below are links to films that you can watch and share to spread their message to the world:

• A collection of documentaries published by Al Jazeera Documentary:

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• “Keeper of Memory” documentary:

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• “Empty Seat” documentary:

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• “Resistance Pilot” documentary:

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• “Jenin” documentary:

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• “The Olive Tree” documentary:

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• “Scenes from the Occupation in Gaza” (1973) documentary:

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• “Gaza Fights For Freedom” documentary:

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• “Arna’s Children” documentary:

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• Short Film “Strawberry”:

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• Short Film “The Place”:

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• “The Mayor” documentary:

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• “The Creation and the Nakba 1948” documentary:

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• “Occupation 101” documentary:

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• “The Shadow of Absence” documentary:

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• “The Don’t Exist” documentary:

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• “As The Poet Said” documentary:

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• “Five Broken Cameras” documentary:

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• “Paradise Now” feature film:

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• “Abnadam” short film:

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• “Wedding of Galilee” feature film:

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• “Keffiyeh” feature film:

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• “Slingshot Hip Hop” documentary:

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• “Tall al-Zaatar” documentary:

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• “Tall al-Zaatar - The Secrets of the Battle” documentary:

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• “In the Grip of the Resistance” documentary:

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• “Swings” documentary:

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• “Naji al-Ali: An Artist with Vision” documentary:

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• “The Upper Gate” documentary:

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• “In Search of Palestine” documentary:

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• “Salt of this Sea” feature film:

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• “Speak, Bird” documentary:

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• “The Palestinian Exodus” series:

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• “I Am Jerusalem” series:

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Feel free to watch and share these films to help spread awareness.

AI, Sacred Violence, and War—The Case of Gaza Chris Hables Gray

reqqasalemqubailat — 2025-08-20 07:41:13 UTC

This open access book is about how Israel is using Algorithmic Intelligence (AI) and other computer technology in military operations in the Gaza Strip to achieve goals based on ancient religious entitlements. Changes in Israel Defense Force (IDF) ethical codes and innovation policies have not led to victory, but have resulted in a wide range of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in a strategy focused on The Torture of Gaza, which includes ethnic cleansing and is approaching genocide. It covers the history of using AI in war, and current U.S. and Israeli military AI technologies such as Maven, Iron Dome, Pegasus, the Alchemist, Gospel, Lavender, and Where’s Daddy, all tested and perfected in the Palestinian Laboratory and marketed as such. This book also places the current data-driven and AI-directed assault on Palestine in the context of Postmodern War, which precludes military victories and enshrines the profits and power of the U.S.-Israeli military-industrial complex in a system of perpetual war and militarized technological innovation. Through an analysis of Israeli military policies, AI, sacred texts, and the basic tenets of postmodern war, the book ultimately reveals the limits of the IDF’s embrace of illusions about new technologies producing actual victory. War today is about winning hearts and minds, not body counts. As fundamentalist politics achieve more and more power around the world in the context of new information technologies, there is growing danger to the future of all of us.

Decolonial Queering in Palestine

kacperradny — 2025-09-11 13:23:19 UTC

This book provides a vivid account of the political valence of weaving queer into native positionality and the struggle for decolonisation in the settler colonial context of Palestine, referred to as decolonial queering. It discusses how processes of gender and sexuality that privilege hetero-colonising authority shaped and continue to define both the Israeli-Zionist conquest of Palestine and the Palestinian struggle for liberation, thus future imaginings of free Palestine. This account emerges directly from the voices and experiences of Palestinian activists and artists; particularly, it draws on fieldwork with Palestine’s most established queer grassroots movement, alQaws for Sexual and Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society, and a variety of artistic Palestinian productions (photography, fashion, music, performance, and video art). Offering a comprehensive and in-depth engagement with the situated context, history, and local practices of Palestinian queerness, scholars, students, and activists across (de)colonial, race, and gender/sexuality studies would appreciate its unique insights; its empirical focus also reaches to those academics in the wider fields of Middle Eastern, anthropological, and political studies.

Suad Amiry-Sharon and My Mother in Law

mortadahaidar — 2025-10-07 13:51:22 UTC

Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel

archieravi55 — 2025-11-25 11:10:51 UTC

This book documents the widespread ecological warfare practised by the state of Israel. Recruited to the front lines are fallow deer, gazelles, wild asses, griffon vultures, pine trees, and cows—on the Israeli side—against goats, camels, olive trees, hybrid goldfinches, and akkoub—which are affiliated with the Palestinian side. These nonhuman soldiers are all the more effective because nature camouflages their tactical deployment as such.

Drawing on more than seventy interviews with Israel’s nature officials and on observations of their work, this book examines the careful orchestration of this animated warfare by Israel’s nature administration on both sides of the Green Line. Alongside its powerful protection of wildlife biodiversity, the territorial reach of Israel’s nature protection is remarkable: to date, nearly 25 per cent of the country’s total land mass is assigned as a park or a reserve. Settling Nature argues that the administration of nature advances the Zionist project of Jewish settlement and the corresponding dispossession of non-Jews from this space.

Online Lecture

reqqasalemqubailat — 2026-01-14 14:35:08 UTC

(Im)possibilities of Ecological Survival in Palestine | Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)