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A Country of Words: A Palestinian Journey from the Refugee Camp to the Front Page by Abdel Bari Atwan Publisher Comments “Atwan's 1996 interview with bin Laden in his Afghanistan redoubt was one of the first and remains one of the best. Atwan ‘got it’ from the moment bin Laden appeared on the scene. . . . What many [Muslims] hate is not the American... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.50 Sale - Hardcover 
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One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate by Tom Segev Publisher Comments One Palestine, Complete explores the tumultuous period before the creation of the state of Israel. This was the time of the British Mandate, when Britain's promise to both Jews and Arabs that they would inherit the land, set in motion the conflict that... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Once Upon a Country: a Palestinian Life (07 Edition) by Sari Nusseibeh Publisher Comments A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A teacher, a scholar, a philosopher, and an eyewitness to history, Sari Nusseibeh is one of our most urgent and articulate authorities on the conflict in the Middle East. From his time teaching side by side... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Question of Palestine by Edward W Said Publisher Comments Still a basic and indespensible account of the Palestinian question, updated to include the most recent developments in the Middle East- from the intifada to the Gulf war to the historic peace conference in Madrid.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid by Roane Carey Publisher Comments Frustrated by the failure of the peace process to end the Israeli occupation, and outraged by Ariel Sharon's invasion, with one thousand armed guards, of the Al-Aqsa holy site in East Jerusalem, the Palestinian population of Israel and the Occupied... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Saw Ramallah (00 Edition) by Mourid Barghouti Publisher Comments Winner of the prestigious Naguib Mahfouz Medal, this fierce and moving work is an unparalleled rendering of the human aspects of the Palestinian predicament. Barred from his homeland after 1967s Six-Day War, the poet Mourid Barghouti spent thirty years... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Oasis of Dreams: Teaching and Learning Peace in a Jewish-Palestinian Village in Israel by Grace Feuerverger Publisher Comments Neve Shalom/Wahat Al-Salam (the Hebrew and Arabic words for Oasis of Peace) is a community founded by Jews and Palestinians that is aimed at demonstrating the possibilities for living in peace while maintaining their respective cultural heritages and... (read more) List Price $53.50 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam by David G Dalin Publisher Comments A chilling, fascinating, and nearly forgotten historical figure is resurrected in a riveting work that links the fascism of the last century with the terrorism of our own. Written with verve and extraordinary access to primary sources in several... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Tasting the Sky : Palestinan Childhood (07 Edition) by Ibtisam Barakat Publisher Comments Winner, Arab American National Museum Book Award for Children's/YA Literature, among other awards and honors. “When a war ends it does not go away,” my mother says.“It hides inside us . . . Just forget!” ... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe Publisher Comments In this controversial new book, a prominent Israeli historian at Haifa University revisits the formative period of the State of Israel. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord during the War of Independence,... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Strangers in the House (02 Edition) by Raja Shehadeh Publisher Comments "This is not a political book," Anthony Lewis asserts in his foreword to this revealing memoir of a father-son relationship set against the backdrop of more than thirty years of life under military occupation. "Yet in a hundred different ways it is... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel by Ilan Pappe Publisher Comments For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the borders of the nation formed at the end of the 1948 conflict. Occupying a precarious middle ground between the Jewish citizens of Israel and the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Soul in Exile by Fawaz Turki Synopsis Poet and essayist Fawaz Turki begins his search for answers in the hallways of the 1983 Palestine National Council meeting in Algiers. He then recalls his family's flight into Lebanon when he was eight, childhood in a refugee camp and the streets of... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Compromising Palestine: A Guide to Final Status Negotiations by Aaron S. Klieman Publisher Comments In response to the challenges of bringing the tenacious Israeli-Palestinian conflict to an end, many have offered grand historical perspectives, vague formulas, or visionary new proposals. Aharon Klieman, however, goes beyond abstract reflections to... (read more) Your price: $21.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel by Gudrun Kramer Publisher Comments It is impossible to understand Palestine today without a careful reading of its distant and recent past. But until now there has been no single volume in English that tells the history of the events--from the Ottoman Empire to the mid-twentieth century... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $15.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness by Rashid Khalidi Publisher Comments I believe that discussions of whether a one-state or a two-state solution to this conflict is preferable have a slightly surreal quality in the current critical environment. What has to be done is not to debate how many states can dance on the head of a... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $10.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Palestine and the Palestinians by Samih K Farsoun Publisher Comments Following the historic Oslo Accords between the PLO and Israel, the future status of the Palestinian population living under Israeli occupation since 1967 has taken center stage. Effectively negotiated out of the agreement is the right of return or of... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Palestinian Liberation Organisation: People, Power and Politics (Cambridge Middle East Library) by Helena Cobban Publisher Comments A comprehensive political analysis of the PLO.... (read more) List Price $70.75 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sharon and My mother-in-law: Ramallah Diaries by Suad Amiry Publisher Comments A collection of journal entries, e-mail correspondence, vignettes, and anecdotes offers an irreverent portrait of the miseries of daily life in the West Bank town of Ramallah, dealing with curfews, roadblocks, violence, and a mother-in-law trapped during... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Gaza: Symbol of Resistance by Joyce Chediac Publisher Comments Giving a voice to those often denied one in the media, this collection of essays and articles covers events in Gaza from the 2005 electoral victory of Hamas, through the siege and Israeli bombing, to the 2010 Israeli commando attack on ships... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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