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13 January 2011
Although As’ad Ghanem’s new book Palestinian Politics after Arafat: A Failed National Movement focuses on the post-Arafat era, the dead leader permeates the pages and his legacy hangs like a specter over the Palestinian body politic. Read more about Book review: Arafat's ghost and the Palestinian national movement
10 January 2011
The Electronic Intifada contributor Arwa Aburawa interviews Gilbert Achcar about his latest book, The Arabs and the Holocaust. Read more about The Holocaust, Palestine and the Arab World: Gilbert Achcar interviewed
30 December 2010
David Cronin’s immensely valuable new book, Europe’s Alliance with Israel: Aiding the Occupation, charts how the European Union and its member states back Israel, and dispels the idea that the US is the only game in town (and that those of us who aren’t resident there can therefore change nothing), while also offering activists new targets for institutional lobbying and boycotts. Read more about Book Review: Europe's Alliance with Israel
28 December 2010
Many Americans think anti-Arab sentiment in the United States began after 11 September 2001. Others think Arabs are recent immigrants to America. Some think the Arab community has kept to itself, not participating in struggles like the civil rights and labor movements. Alia Malek’s A Country Called Amreeka is a welcome corrective to these mistaken notions. Read more about Book review: correcting mistaken notions on Arabs in America
17 December 2010
DAM is a Palestinian hip hop trio from Lod, a mixed Palestinian and Jewish town about 20 kilometers from Jerusalem. The Electronic Intifada contributor Hira Nabi spoke with DAM’s Suhell Nafar by phone while the trio was in the United States for a brief tour. Read more about "We will continue to sing": DAM's Suhell Nafar interviewed
20 December 2010
In his new book Europe’s Alliance with Israel: Aiding the Occupation, journalist David Cronin exposes the bad faith behind Europe’s position as a neutral force and its claims to support the basic rights of the Palestinian people. Sarah Irving interviews for The Electronic Intifada. Read more about How Europe aids the occupation: David Cronin interviewed
14 December 2010
Western publishers have too often neglected the perspective of Palestinians and other Arabs when it comes to books on Israel and the Palestinians. Letters from Palestine, a new collection of Palestinian writing edited by Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Abdullah, is thus a welcome initiative. Read more about Book review: Humanity and warmth in "Letters from Palestine"
13 December 2010
In his new book Spy Trade, Grant F. Smith offers a richly detailed narrative discussing the how and who of lobby activities in the United States from 1948-2009, uncovered through insistent Freedom of Information Act requests. Read more about Book review: "Spy Trade" details history of Israel lobby in the US
10 December 2010
Chicago-based Palestinian American rapper Gon isn’t apologizing. In his recently released hip-hop album Consider Violence, Gon aggressively confronts political and personal realities, boldly lyricizing his uncompromising opinions. Read more about Palestinian American hip-hop artist asks you to "Consider Violence"
30 November 2010
In his new book Hidden Histories: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean, Basem Ra’ad unearths new renderings of religious, historical and cultural material and offers readers a direction for thinking about research and activism alike. Read more about Book review: excavating Palestine's "Hidden Histories"