Author’s personal diaries convey daily experiences of 51-day Israeli attack. Read more about Atef Abu Saif’s chilling, evocative stories of Gaza onslaught 

Despite the huge resources dedicated to Hebrew, some Jewish Israeli writers work in Arabic. Read more about Can literature disrupt Israel’s identity? 

Everything — down to “our coffee cups” — is stolen away in the poet’s final works. Read more about Mahmoud Darwish and the intimacy of Israel's occupation 

Novelist khulud khamis tackles sex and religion in present-day Israel and the occupied West Bank. Read more about Fragments of Palestine woven together in literary plea for female solidarity 

Book is based on the father of the author’s experience growing up in Lebanon camp. Read more about Palestinian refugee boy comes of age in graphic novel "Baddawi" 

Novelist Ibrahim Nasrallah portrays Daher al-Umar al-Zaydani as a just and merciful ruler. Read more about Romance and adventure in eighteenth-century Palestine 

Ruth Padel avoids the clumsiness that often characterizes attempts to compare Israel and Nazi Germany. Read more about Linking Gaza and Auschwitz, British poet builds "defense against the dark"