Author Sherene Seikaly draws a fascinating portrait of Mandate Palestine’s middle class. Read more about The "men of capital" and the struggle for Palestine 

By looking at Palestine’s past, book offers vision for future. Read more about Israeli portrait of rose-tinted past gives way to rage at settlers 

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 

Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Time of White Horses is a bewildering labyrinth of a book, yet its very untidiness conveys a powerful sense of the textures of place, time and custom of Palestine’s history. Read more about Magic realism with footnotes: novelist Nasrallah creates a genre of his own