Israel & Palestine

A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem's libraries to tell the story of this city as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615199501Author Michael Scott-BaumannFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ExperimentPublisher Experiment

Drawn from greater Syria, northern Mesopotamia, and Egypt, the sources in this anthology-many of which are translated into English for the first time here--provide eyewitness and contemporary historical accounts of what unfolded in the eastern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474454001Author Louis A FishmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

Aryeh Lightstone, former Senior Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Special Envoy for the Abraham Accords, is uniquely poised to unravel the past, present, and, most importantly, the future of U.S. foreign policy with the Middle East."A powerful...

The Life of Ibn Hanbal is a translation of the biography of Ibn Hanbal by the Baghdad preacher, scholar, and storyteller Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597/1200), newly abridged for a paperback readership by translator Michael Cooperson. Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d...

In the years that preceded the October 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel invested heavily in the creation of a heavy attack force of four F-4 Phantom/Kurnass squadrons. They would fly 3,000+ sorties, claim 80+ kills, and suffer 30+ losses during the nineteen...

How a controversial biblical tale of conquest and genocide became a founding story of modern IsraelNo biblical text has been more central to the politics of modern Israel than the book of Joshua. Named after a military leader who became the successor to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503628397Author Sami HermezFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Redwood PressPublisher Redwood Press

On November 2, 1917, Arthur Balfour, then Foreign Secretary, wrote to Lord Rothschild to say that the British Government viewed with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. The consequences of this statement have...

In Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colonizer is ousted by the colonized. Instead, he considers the case of the Palestinian struggle for liberation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999412794Author Michael HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shorehouse BooksPublisher Shorehouse BooksWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566569255Author Wasif JawhariyyehFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385495622Author James RestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628729221Author Simon ReeveFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

"The Missing Peace", published to great acclaim last year, is the most candid inside account of the Middle East peace process ever written. Dennis Ross, the chief Middle East peace negotiator in the presidential administrations of George H. W. Bush and...

Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long been a staple of both Jewish and American political culture. But despite these arguments' significance to American politics, American Jewish life, and...

We Belong to the Land, the gripping autobiography of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Elias Chacour, capture his life's work toward peace and reconciliation for Israeli Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize,...

This foundational text now features a new introduction by Rashid Khalidi reflecting on the significance of his work over the past decade and its relationship to the struggle for Palestinian nationhood. Khalidi also casts an eye to the future, noting the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765140116Author Robert C. DiPrizioFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623716479Author Phyllis BennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

This book examines the relationship between the rabbinate and politics in religious Zionism during the early years of the State of Israel. What fundamental issues did the rabbis of the party face? Did all religious Zionist rabbis follow the same...

In Peter Beinart's view, one story dominates Jewish communal life: that of persecution and victimhood. It is a story that erases much of the nuance of Jewish religious tradition and warps our understanding of Israel and Palestine. After Gaza, where...

First published in 1981, Jerusalem provides an overview of the history of Jerusalem and its crucial linkage with the peace and stability in the Middle East. Jerusalem is unique amongst all the cities of the world because of its association with three...

This book examines processes of fragmentation that have altered the social dynamics of Palestinian society since the second intifada. With a specific focus on the city of Nablus and its outer laying areas, the book details the extraordinarily personal...

The attempts to evict Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah in May 2021 caught the attention of the world. While this small Palestinian neighbourhood in East Jerusalem had long been central to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the planned expulsions...

This book engages with pivotal examples of extraterritoriality—from Antiquity and into the twenty first century—in order to broaden the original judicial and geographical definition and thereby include physical and digitized information, and visual data...

Among the most progressive of Zionist settlement movements, Hashomer Hatzair proclaimed a brotherly stance on Zionist-Palestinian relations. Until the tumultuous end of the British Mandate, movement settlers voiced support for a binational Jewish-Arab...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399503624Author Sarah IrvingFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

This book delves into the complex narratives surrounding the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian dispute through the unique lens of theatre. This ground-breaking exploration employs postcolonial theory to analyze a diverse array of theatrical works by Israeli,...

This book investigates representations of Palestinian refugees in Gaza in colonial, humanitarian and Palestinian documentary films, spanning until the 1993 Oslo Agreement. Chapters examine various film sources throughout this period including British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474492072Author Said AljoumaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

The book Youth, Identity, and Re-Fashioning Popular Music in Israel. 1950s-1980s aims to refresh the understanding of the relationship between social power relations, youth culture, and popular music in Israel. The authors discuss various perspectives...

How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO’s relationship to Zionism and IsraelIn September 1982, the Israeli military invaded West Beirut and Israel-allied Lebanese militiamen massacred Palestinians in the Sabra and...

Although an ally of Nazi Germany during World War II, Japan adamantly refused to accede to German demands to deal harshly with the some 40,000 Jews living under its control. While there was anti-Semitism in Japan since the early 1920s, there was also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803710648Author David H StoneFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

THE TERRORIST MASSACRE COMMITTED BY HAMAS AGAINST INNOCENT ISRAELIS ON OCTOBER 7, 2023 BROUGHT GREAT TRAUMA TO THE STATE OF ISRAEL.BUT IT ALSO HAS BROUGHT GREAT CLARITY. It is this clarity that tells us we must try something NEW. It is this clarity that...

The attempts to evict Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah in May 2021 caught the attention of the world. While this small Palestinian neighbourhood in East Jerusalem had long been central to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the planned expulsions...

Founded in 1929, the Jewish Agency played a central role in the founding of the State of Israel. Throughout the 1920s, 30s and 40s, many secret meetings took place between the JA and Arab leaders and elites. The dominant narrative claims that Syrian...

First published in 1930, Palestine To-day and Tomorrow provides a comprehensive overview of John Haynes Holmes’s experiences in Palestine. Chapter one is a running account, written on the spot, of his experiences in Palestine. Chapter two presents a...