Israel/Palestine and the Queer International (Schulman Sarah)(Paperback)

Israel/Palestine and the Queer International (Schulman Sarah)(Paperback)

In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Invited to Israel to give the keynote address at an LGBT studies conference at Tel Aviv University, Schulman declines,

The Palestine-Israel Conflict: A Basic Introduction - Fourth Edition (Harms Gregory)(Paperback)

The Palestine-Israel conflict is the most notorious and ingrained conflict in living memory. Yet the way it is reported in the media is often confusing, leading many to falsely assume the hostilities stretch continuously back to an ancient period. The Palestine-Israel Conflict provides a balanced,

Stagestruck: Theater, Aids, and the Marketing of Gay America (Schulman Sarah)(Paperback)

In Stagestruck noted novelist and outspoken critic Sarah Schulman offers an account of her growing awareness of the startling similarities between her novel People in Trouble and the smash Broadway hit Rent. Written with a powerful and personal voice, Schulman's book is part gossipy narrative, part

Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict - A History with Documents (Smith Charles D)(Paperback / softback)

The Two-State Delusion: Israel and Palestine--A Tale of Two Narratives (O'Malley Padraig)(Paperback)

The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination (Schulman Sarah)(Paperback)

In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981-1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism. Schulman takes us back to

The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A History (Gelvin James L.)(Paperback)

Now in its fourth edition, James L. Gelvin's award-winning account of the conflict between Israel and Palestine offers a compelling, accessible and current introduction for students and general readers. The book traces the struggle from the emergence of nationalism among the Jews of Europe and the

Enemies and Neighbours - Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 (Black Ian)(Paperback / softback)

A century after Britain's Balfour Declaration promised a Jewish 'national home' in Palestine, veteran Guardian journalist Ian Black has produced a major new history of one of the most polarising conflicts of the modern age. Drawing on a wide range of sources - from declassified documents to oral

Cracks in the Wall: Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel (White Ben)(Paperback)

After decades of occupation and creeping annexation, Israel has created an apartheid system in historic Palestine. Peace efforts have failed because of one hard truth: the best Israeli offers do not meet the minimum that a truly free Palestine would require--nor that international law would

The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine (Kotef Hagar)(Paperback)

Colonizers continuously transform spaces of violence into spaces of home. Israeli Jews settle in the West Bank and in depopulated Palestinian houses in Haifa or Jaffa. White missionaries build their lives in Africa. The descendants of European settlers in the Americas and Australia dwell and thrive

Girls, Visions and Everything (Schulman Sarah)(Paperback)

From the prizewinning author of Let the Record Show, a 'wry and playful' (Out) novel of lesbian sex, politics, and art in 1980s downtown New York. It's summer in New York City and the streets are sizzling. Below 14th Street the girls at the Kitsch-Inn are hard at work on their new lesbian version

Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide (White Ben)(Paperback)

* Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2012*Since its release in 2009 Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide has become an essential primer for undergraduate students and activists getting to grips with the Palestine/Israel conflict for the first time. Ben White skilfully distills the work of

Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel (Ross Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

The Story of Palestine's Stonemasons and the Building of Israel 'They demolish our houses while we build theirs.' This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian 'stone men,' utilizing some of the best quality

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Atshan Sa'ed)(Paperback)

From Ramallah to New York, Tel Aviv to Porto Alegre, people around the world celebrate a formidable, transnational Palestinian LGBTQ social movement. Solidarity with Palestinians has become a salient domain of global queer politics. Yet LGBTQ Palestinians, even as they fight patriarchy and

Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Finkelstein Norman G.)(Paperback)

'The most revealing study of the historical background of the conflict.' --Noam ChomskyAn acclaimed critical examination of Zionism in Israel/Palestine through a survey of dominant popular and scholarly images Finkelstein opens this acclaimed study with a theoretical discussion of Zionism, locating

Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine (Adwan Sami)(Paperback)

In 2000, a group of Israeli and Palestinian teachers gathered to address what to many people seemed an unbridgeable gulf between the two societies. Struck by how different the standard Israeli and Palestinian textbook histories of the same events were from one another, they began to explore how to

Past Disquiet: Artists, International Solidarity and Museums in Exile (Khouri Kristine)(Paperback)

The International Art Exhibition for Palestine took place in Beirut in 1978 and mobilized international networks of artists in solidarity with anti-imperialist movements of the 1960s and '70s. In that era, individual artists and artist collectives assembled collections; organized touring

The Palestinians (Sayigh Rosemary)(Paperback)

As the Israel-Palestine conflict rages on, it is more important now than ever to understand the history of the Palestinian people. Rosemary Sayigh's The Palestinians is a classic of radical history. Through extensive interviews with Palestinians in refugee camps, she provides a deeply-moving,

Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War (Hazkani Shay)(Paperback)

In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Arabs came from all over the world to join those already on the ground to fight in the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces and the Arab Liberation Army

Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel (Landy David)(Paperback)

Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech. While much of the public debate has focussed on 'no platforming' by students, this overlooks the far graver threat posed by concerted efforts to silence the critical voices

Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine: Two Worlds Collide (Dowty Alan)(Paperback)

When did the Arab-Israeli conflict begin? Some discussions focus on the 1967 war, some go back to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, and others look to the beginning of the British Mandate in 1922. Alan Dowty, however, traces the earliest roots of the conflict to the Ottoman Empire in the

Tin Man (Winman Sarah)(Paperback / softback)

The unforgettable and achingly tender new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international bestseller WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT and the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS

The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine (Peled Miko)(Paperback)

A powerful account, by Israeli peace activist Miko Peled, of his transformation from a young man who'd grown up in the heart of Israel's elite and served proudly in its military into a fearless advocate of nonviolent struggle and equal rights for all Palestinians and Israelis. His journey is

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics (Hill Marc Lamont)(Pevná vazba)

A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from a New York Times bestselling author and an expert on U.S. policy in the region In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and