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Palestinian History
Books with a historical focus on Palestine and the Palestinian people.
After the Last Sky
By Edward W. Said
Publisher: Columbia University Press (September 15, 1998), 192 pages
A searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's unclaimable past and a testimony to the lives of those living in exile.
A History of Modern Palestine : One Land, Two Peoples
By Ilan Pappe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (November 3, 2003), 333 pages
Ilan Pappe's book is the story of Palestine, a land inhabited by two peoples, and two national identities. It begins with the Ottomans in the early 1800s, the reign of Muhammad Ali, and traces a path through the arrival of the early Zionists at the end of that century, through the British mandate at the beginning of the twentieth century, the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, and the subsequent wars and conflicts which culminated in the intifadas of 1987 and 2000.
The Edward Said Reader
By Edward W. Said, Moustafa Bayoumi (Editor), Andrew Rubin (Editor)
Publisher: Vintage (September 12, 2000), 472 pages
The Edward Said Reader includes key sections from all of Said's books, from the groundbreaking 1966 study of Joseph Conrad to his new memoir, Out of Place. Whether he is writing of Zionism or Palestinian self-determination, Jane Austen or Yeats, music or the media, Said's uncompromising intelligence casts urgent light on every subject he undertakes. The Edward Said Reader will prove a joy to the general reader and an indispensable resource for scholars of politics, history, literature, and cultural studies: in short, of all those fields that his work has influenced and, in some cases, transformed.
Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness
By Rashid Khalidi
Publisher: Columbia University Press (October 15, 1998), 304 pages
Winner of the 1997 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association Khalidi critically assesses the narratives that make up Palestinian history and identity and examines the ways in which the Palestinian national consciousness has come full circle.
The Palestinian People : A History
By Baruch Kimmerling (Author), Joel S. Migdal (Author)
Publisher: Harvard Univ. Pr. (March 2003), 480 pages
In a timely reminder of how the past informs the present, Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal offer an authoritative account of the history of the Palestinian people from their modern origins to the Oslo peace process and beyond.
The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem
By Nur Masalha
Publisher: Pluto Press (January 2004), 298 pages
The aim of this book is to analyze Israeli policies towards the Palestinian refugees as they evolved from the 1948 catastrophe (or nakba) to the present. It is the first volume to look in detail at Israeli law and policy surrounding the refugee question. Drawing on extensive primary sources and previously classified archive material, Masalha discusses the 1948 exodus; Israeli resettlement schemes since 1948; Israeli approaches to compensation and restitution of property; Israeli refugee policies towards the internally displaced ('present absentees'); and Israeli refugee policies during the Madrid and Oslo negotiations.
The Question of Palestine
By Edward W. Said
Publisher: Vintage (Reissue Edition April 7, 1992), 320 pages
Still a basic and indespensible account of the Palestinian question, updated to include the most recent developments in the Middle East- from the first intifada to the Gulf war to the historic peace conference in Madrid.
Remembering Deir Yassin: The Future of Israel and Palestine
By Daniel McGowan (Editor), Marc Ellis (Editor)
Publisher: Olive Branch Pr. (June 10, 1998), 160 pages
Remembering Deir Yassin brings together Palestinians and Israelis, Jews, Muslims and Christians, Jewish theologians and Palestinian priests, to reflect on the fifty year legacy of Deir Yassin.
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