Israel & Palestine

*Winner of the MEMO Palestine Book Awards 2017* Spanning several decades, Ella Shohat's work has introduced conceptual frameworks that fundamentally challenged conventional understandings of Palestine, Zionism and the Middle East, focusing on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853039600Author Zvi ElpelegFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Palestine, 1850: a backwater of the Ottoman Empire, but soon to become the focus of intense jealousies. Locally Arabs and Jews became increasingly polarised, internationally the vacuum left by the demise of the Ottoman Empire was filled with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383643Author Lyn JuliusFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

Ariel Sharon is one of the most experienced, shrewd and frightening leaders of the new millennium. Despite being found both directly and indirectly responsible for acts considered war crimes under international law, he became Prime Minister of Israel, a...

What are we doing then? Come on, lets go - all of us, lets tell everyone in the street, its too late we've lost, all the years of hardship, being murdered, imprisoned, having your homes taken, your jobs, your fields, your olives, your ability to move...

Cutting-edge analysis on how to improve life inside the Gaza Strip through architecture and design, illustrated in full-colorThe Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered environments on earth. Crammed into a space of 139 square miles (360 square...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638232568Author Meir KahaneFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.com

One Land, Two States is a bold restructuring of an idea that remains at the heart of international diplomacy after generations of conflict. A pioneering effort to preserve the two-state solution in Israel and Palestine, the book imagines new paradigms in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307388506Author Sasha Polakow-SuranskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

In October 1973, the State of Israel was invaded by Egyptian and Syrian forces. Despite early losses, Israel managed to outfight its opponents. The brief and bloody Yom Kippur War stands as a unique chapter in modern military history. Fought primarily by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863515Author James F. PetrasFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583226513Author Tanya ReinhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 299g

After decades of occupation and creeping annexation, the situation on the ground in Palestine/Israel can only be described as a system of apartheid. Peace efforts have failed because of one, inconvenient truth: the Israeli maximum on offer does not meet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336332Author Peter ShergoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The struggle over Israel/Palestine is not just another contest by competing nationalisms or an instance of geopolitical competition. It is also about control of sacred territory that involves local Jews, Muslims, and Christians as well as worldwide faith...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943423903Author Ramon BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Shekinah Books LLCPublisher Shekinah Books LLCWeight(grams) 381g

In the mid-1970s, Saul Bellow visited Israel and To Jerusalem and Back is his account of his time there. Immersing himself in its landscape and culture, he records the opinions, passions and dreams of Israelis of varying viewpoints - from Prime Minister...

The Palestine campaign of 1917 saw Britain's armed forces rise from defeat to achieve stunning victory. After two failed attempts in the spring, at the end of the year they broke through the Ottoman line with an innovative mixture of old and new...

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...

At birth it was only Amal's father who looked at her and said "I see hope in her face. I want to call her 'Amal'- meaning 'Hope'- in the hope that Allah will give us boys after her." The fifth daughter in a patriarchal society and an indigenous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688123635Author Gilbert MFormat PaperbackPage Count 810Imprint HarperCollins Childrens Book GroupPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

The 3rd Afghan War in 1919 was the only time that the Afghans invaded British India during Britain's long history of conflict in Afghanistan and along the North-West Frontier. It was a campaign that cost the lives of well over 1,000 British and Indian...

A perfectly-sized NKJV Bible that's easy to read and lightweight to take with you wherever you go.With a variety of unique and traditional cover designs available, this Bible is beautiful inside and out. Fitting most purses, laptop bags, and glove boxes,...

For outside observers, current events in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank are seldom related to the collective memory of ordinary Palestinians. But for Palestinians themselves, the iniquities of the present are experienced as a continuous replay of the...

Salman Abu Sitta, who has single-handedly made available crucial mapping work on Palestine, was just ten years old when he left his home near Beersheba in 1948, but as for many Palestinians of his generation, the profound effects of that traumatic loss...

In 1948, only three years after the Holocaust, the newly founded nation of Israel came under siege from a coalition of Arab states. The invaders vowed to annihilate the tiny country and its 600,000 settlers. A second Holocaust was in the making...

Based on official records held at the National Archives and other published sources, 'Hunters over Arabia' presents an in-depth account of the operations performed by the Hawker Hunter squadrons policing the desert wastelands and high mountain ranges of...

On 4 July 1187 the legendary Muslim leader Saladin destroyed the Crusader army of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem with a terrible slaughter at the battle of Hattin - and went on to restore the Holy City of Jerusalem to Islamic rule. The carnage at...

2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Nonfiction Runner Up The complex histories and memories of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis today frame Israel's future possibilities for peace. 1948: As Jewish refugees, survivors of the Holocaust, struggle toward...

The first annotated translation of the 9th-century Islamic apocalyptic work 'The Book of Tribulations' the earliest complete Muslim apocalyptic text to survive.Book InformationISBN 9781474444088Author Nu'aym b. Hammad al-MarwaziFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390618Author Athol YatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by Orthodox Jew Yigal Amir, twenty years ago this November, remains the most consequential event in the country's recent history. Killing a King relates parallel stories over the two years leading up to the...

By combining their expertise in English literature and anthropology, Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana bring to these folktales an integral method of study that unites a sensitivity to language with a deep appreciation for culture. As native...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623717193Author Raja KhouriFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

The 1948 war ended in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes. Israeli settlers moved in to occupy their land and the Palestinian refugees found themselves expelled. Today there are nearly four million Palestinian refugees...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Plutarch Award 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780805211931Author Francine KlagsbrunFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211498Author Walter LaqueurFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 587gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm...

Mention Israel and internal conflict, and most people immediately think of the seemingly insoluble Palestinian problem. However, as Rachel Shabi explains in this acclaimed book, there is another crucial division within Israeli society: between Ashkenazi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830846979Author Donald M. LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm *...