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The Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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)
- 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...