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A Season in Bethlehem: Unholy War in a Sacred Place By Joshua Hammer Publisher: Free Press (September 8, 2003), 288 pages A Season in Bethlehem is the story of one West Bank town's two-year disintegration, as witnessed by a reporter who was there from the beginning. Woven together from Hammer's own firsthand reportage plus hundreds of interviews, it follows a dozen characters whose lives collided on the streets of this biblical city. A clear-eyed chronicle of deepening chaos and violence, in which Hammer lets the opposing sides speak for themselves, A Season in Bethlehem is both a timely and timeless look at how longstanding religious and political tensions finally boiled over in a place of profound resonance: the birthplace of Jesus. Beyond Intifada : Narratives of Freedom Fighters in the Gaza Strip By Haim Gordon (Author), Rivca Gordon (Author), Taher Shriteh (Author) Publisher: Praeger Publishers (March 30, 2003), 176 pages This book presents the personal narratives of six Palestinians--four men and two women--whose stories are central to describing the greater Palestinian plight in the Gaza Strip, the Intifada, the beginning of the 1993 peace process, and beyond. Each Palestinian has related crucial events in his or her life story, and by reading their accounts, we come to see the struggle through their eyes and put a human face on events that Western media and consciousness have only partially explored. Growing Up Palestinian : Israeli Occupation and the Intifada Generation By Laetitia Bucaille Publisher: Princton Univ. Press (March 1, 2004), 168 pages This remarkable book tells the inside story of three young men caught up in the Palestinian intifada. Through their stories, the tangled and tragic web of the past twenty years of the most enduring conflict in the Middle East unfolds before us. For over a decade, Laetitia Bucaille lived in the Occupied Territories for months at a time, gaining rare access to the three militants she calls Sami, Najy, and Bassam and many other Palestinians they crossed paths with--those who grew up during the first intifada and whose lives became bound up with the second, which erupted in 2000. The result is an intimate yet unsentimental portrait of daily life in the West Bank and Gaza from the mid-1980s to today. Live from Palestine: International and Palestinian Direct Action Against the Occupation By Nancy Stohlman (Editor), Laurieann Aladin (Editor) Publisher: South End Press (April 15, 2003), 223 pages Featuring essays by EI co-founders Ali Abunimah and Arjan El Fassed, the core of this collection lies in the riveting eye-witness accounts of life under the Occupation. From the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem to refugee camps under siege, these accounts give incontrovertible evidence of the terror generated by the Israeli army. The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid By Roane Carey (Editor) Publisher: Verso Books (October 2001), 320 pages Here, a group of experts, many of them directly involved in the conflict, trace the course of the uprising, its consequences for the Palestinian people and the Israeli state, and its likely impact on the future of peace in the Middle East. Contributors: EI co-founder Ali Abunimah, Ghassan Andoni, Omar Barghouti, Nidal Barham, Azmi Bishara, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Muna Hamzeh, Hussein Ibish, Jan de Jong, Jennifer Loewenstein, Nancy Murray, Allegra Pacheco, Mouin Rabbani, Glenn Robinson, Sara Roy, Edward Said, Salman Abu Sitta, Gita Svirsky, Ahdaf Soueif, Mayssoun Sukarieh, Alison Weir. Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada By Wendy Pearlman (Author), Laura Junka (Photographer) Publisher: Nation Books (May 2003), 257 pages When the occupied territories exploded following the collapse of the Camp David talks and Ariel Sharon's inflammatory visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, Wendy Pearlman, a young Jewish woman from Nebraska, immersed herself amongst ordinary Palestinians and, a la Studs Terkel, recorded their lives. A remarkable oral narrative emerges from the school principals, professors, TV reporters, school kids, mothers, doctors, engineers, filmmakers, shop owners, victims of shellings and forced house removals that spoke to her. Containing over thirty searing oral testimonies, this is one of the first books to tell the Palestinian story from the point of view of Palestinians living in the occupied territories. Operation Defensive Shield: Witnesses to Israeli War Crimes By Muna Hamzeh (Editor), Todd May (Editor) Publisher: Pluto Press (May 5, 2003), 199 pages Documentation of the Israeli launched Operation Defensive Shield, the largest military offensive against Palestinian civilians since the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Narratives offer an intimate account of the daily reality for Palestinians who endured Ariel Sharon's military strategy. Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid : Occupation, Terrorism and the Future By Marwan Bishara Publisher: Zed Books (January 18, 2003), 173 pages In this thoroughly updated edition, Marwan Bishara, a leading Palestinian commentator, re-analyzes the Palestinian/Israeli situation nine years on from the Oslo Accords of 1993. He lays out the causes of the Second Intifada and argues that peace without justice is impossible. Bishara shows how the patrons of the Oslo "peace process", in particular the US, ignored the asymmetry of power between the Palestinians and Israelis. The ill-conceived transition process, as a result, degenerated into the fragmented and dependent apartheid statelet that exists today in the West Bank and Gaza. Peace Fire: Fragments from the Israel-Palestine Story By Ethan Casey (Editor), Paul Hilder (Editor) Publisher: Free Assn. Books (November 2002), 365 pages A new diaries compilation, Peace Fire, features many of EI's Live From Palestine authors, including EI co-founders Ali Abunimah and Arjan El Fassed. Peace Fire aligns the chronology of recent story with thoughtful, analyses, some of which are passionate, others disinterested (and several of which have already been proved wrong). In the process it weaves together the intemperate opinions, anger, hatred and confusion of the crisis. It spreads out from personal experiences of tragedy, conflict and hope at the epicentre to touch on the alarming global ripple effects, with contributors ranging from those on the both sides directly affected to expert observers from around the world. Refugees in Our Own Land : Chronicles from a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Bethlehem By Muna Hamzeh Publisher: Pluto Press (September 2001), 160 pages This remarkable book is a gripping eyewitness account of what it is like to live in Palestine as a refugee in your own homeland. Born in Jerusalem, Muna Hamzeh is a journalist who has been writing about Palestinian affairs since 1985. She first worked as a journalist in Washington DC, but moved back to Palestine in 1989 to cover the first Palestine Intifada -- the war of stones. She then settled in Dheisheh, near Bethlehem, one of 59 Palestinian refugee camps that are considered the oldest refugee camps in the world. Reporting from Ramallah : An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land By Amira Hass Publisher: MIT Press (July 20, 2003), 209 pages The daughter of concentration camp survivors, Hass has chosen to live in a Palestinian town to provide a firsthand description of what daily life is like for the population, in particular, how the Israeli army behaves and the effects of the army's presence. Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion By Ramzy Baroud (Editor) Publisher: Cune (October 2003), 288 pages Testemant to Israeli brutality and Palestinian resilience during the Israeli invasion of the refugee camp in spring 2002. ©2000-2007 electronicIntifada.net unless otherwise noted. Content may represent personal view of author. This page was printed from the Electronic Intifada website at electronicIntifada.net. You may freely e-mail, print out, copy, and redistribute this page for informational purposes on a non-commercial basis. 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