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The Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam

The Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam
  • Author(s): Elias Khoury
  • Location(s): Palestine, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

A moving story about Palestine’s 1948 Exodus by the Arab world’s finest living novelist. First in a trilogy. Long exiled in New York, Palestinian ex-pat Adam Dannoun thought he knew himself. But an encounter with Blind Mahmoud, a father...

Drinking the Sea at Gaza

Drinking the Sea at Gaza
  • Author(s): Amira Hass
  • Location(s): Gaza
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

The first Israeli journalist to voluntarily live in Gaza, the much-maligned Palestinian enclave, offers her insights and reflections on what she saw and learned, the joys, and the sudden fears, and gives a moving portrait of the resilient Palestinian...

Fifty Miles Wide

Fifty Miles Wide
  • Author(s): Julian Sayarer
  • Location(s): Israel, Palestine
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): contemporary

Ten years after breaking a world record for a circumnavigation by bicycle, award-winning travel writer Julian Sayarer returns to two wheels to write life at the roadsides of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. His journey weaves from fertile...

The Bethlehem Murders

The Bethlehem Murders
  • Author(s): Matt Rees
  • Location(s): Bethlehem
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A bumbling, mature history teacher is the sleuth in this book, the policitcal situation is sensitively described and the plot has a superb twist.

A Month By The Sea

A Month By The Sea
  • Author(s): Dervla Murphy
  • Location(s): Gaza
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2011

Over the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters, rich and poor. Used to western reporters dashing in and out of the Strip in times...

I Shall Not Hate

I Shall Not Hate
  • Author(s): Izzeldin Abuelaish
  • Location(s): Palestine
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Abuelaish was raised in a refugee camp in the Gaza strip and then trained as a doctor, devoting his life to medicine and to reconciliation. He crossed the Border on a regular basis treating people on both sides of...

Live from Jordan

Live from Jordan
  • Author(s): Benjamin Orbach
  • Location(s): Egypt, Palestine, Turkey
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Pittsburgh native and graduate student Ben Orbach traveled to the Middle East to experience the region first-hand. Despite having a degree in Middle Eastern studies, he was completely unprepared for...

Staircase of a Thousand Steps

Staircase of a Thousand Steps
  • Author(s): Masha Hamilton
  • Location(s): Jordan, Palestine
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early/Mid 20th Century

The storyline is of a fictional village in Palestine, 1929-1967, a place that comes to life via wonderfully drawn characters.

The Almond Tree

The Almond Tree
  • Author(s): Michelle Cohen Corosanti
  • Location(s): Palestine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This beautifully written and compelling novel is a tale of two Palestinian brothers, one full of anger and hate, the other trying to build a bridge through scientific endeavour. The book vividly brings to life the everyday experiences of...

The Book of Ramallah (Reading The City)

The Book of Ramallah (Reading The City)
  • Author(s): Maya Abu Al-Hayat (editor)
  • Location(s): Ramallah, West Bank
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1967 onwards

A coffee seller waits all day for one of his customers to ask him how he is, until eventually he just tells the city itself… A teenager is ordered off a bus at a checkpoint and told he must...

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