Suggested Readings

Abdul-Hadi, Mahdi F., ed. Palestine: Documents. 2 vols.(Jerusalem: PASSIA, 1997).

Applied Research Institute. An Atlas of Palestine (Bethlehem: Applied Research Institute, 2000).

Ingrams, Doreen; compiler. Palestine Papers 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict (New York: George Braziller, 1973).

Institute for Palestine Studies, ed. United Nations Resolutions on Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 5 vols. (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies).

Mattar, Philip, ed. Encyclopedia of the Palestinians (New York: Facts on File, 2000).

Nakhleh, Issa. Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem, 2 vols. (New York: Intercontinental Books, 1991).

Nazzal, Nafez and Laila Nazzal. Historical Dictionary of Palestine (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1997).

GENERAL READINGS

Anderson, Lisa, et al. The Origins of Arab Nationalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993).

Barakat, Halim. The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).

Bunzl, John and Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi; Editors. Psychoanalysis, Identity, and Ideology: Critical Essays on the Israel/Palestine Case (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2002).

Elmusa, Sharif. Water Conflict: Economics, Politics, Law and Palestinian-Israeli Water Resources (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1997).

Farsoun, Samih with Christina Zacharia. Palestine and the Palestinians (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997).

Finkelstein, Norman. The Rise and Fall of Palestine (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996).

Hart, Alan. Arafat: A Political Biography (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1994).

Hiro, Dilip. Sharing the Promised Land: A Tale of Israelis and Palestinians (New York: Olive Branch Press, 1999 [1996]).

Hourani, Albert. A History of the Arab Peoples (New York: Warner Books, 1991).

Kapitan, Tomis; editor. Philosophical Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997).

Khalidi, Walid. Palestine Reborn (New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1992).

Rodinson, Maxine. Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? (New York: Monad Press, 1973).

Kimmerling, Baruch and Joel S. Migdal. The Palestinian People: A History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003).

Said, Edward. The Question of Palestine (New York: Vintage, 1980).

Sharabi, Hisham. Palestine and Israel: the Lethal Dilemma (New York: Pegasus, 1969).

HISTORY

Pre-modern History

Thompson, Thomas. The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel (London: Basic Books, 1999).

Whitelam, Keith W. The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History (New York: Routledge, 1996).

Pre - 1948

Doumani, Beshara. Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).

Huneidi, Sahar. A Broken Trust: Herbert Samuel, Zionism and the Palestinians, 1920-1925 (New York: I.B. Tauris, 2001).

Khalidi, Walid. Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians, 1876-1948 (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1991).

Masalha, Nur. Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of ‘Transfer’ in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948 (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992).

Mattar, Phillip. The Mufti of Jerusalem (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992).

Muslih, Muhammad Y. The Origins of Palestinian Nationalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988).

Owen, Roger, ed. Studies in the Economic History of Palestine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982).

Shafir, Gershon. Land, labor, and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

Smith, Barbara. The Roots of Separatism in Palestine, British Economic Policy, 1920-1929 (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1993).

Stevens, Georgiana G. Jordan River Partition (Stanford: Hoover Institute, 1965).

Swedenberg, Ted. Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995).

Post - 1948

Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim, ed. The Transformation of Palestine (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1971).

Hadawi, Sami. Palestinian Rights and Losses in 1948: A Comprehensive Study (London: Saqi Books, 1988).

Khalidi, Walid. All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992).

McGowan, Daniel and Marc Ellis. Remembering Deir Yassin: The Future of Israel and Palestine (New York: Olive Branch Press, 1998).

Palumbo, Michael. The Palestinian Catastrophe: The 1948 Expulsion of a People from Their Homeland (New York: Olive Branch Press, 1991).

Pappe, Ilan. The Making of the Arab-Israel Conflict, 1947-1951 (London: I. B. Tauris, 1992).

Toubbeh, Jamil I. Day of the Long Night: A Palestinian Refugee Remembers the Nakba (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1997).

Tamari, Salim. Jerusalem 1948: The Arab Neighborhoods and their Fate in the War (Jerusalem: Institute of Jerusalem Studies and Badil Resource Center, 1999).

Zurayk, Constantine K.; trans. R.B. Winder. The Meaning of the Disaster (Beirut: Khayat’s College Book Cooperative, 1956).

Aruri, Naseer. Editor. Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return (Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2001).

Karmi, Ghada, Eugene Cotran, and Ian Gilmour. The Palestinian Exodus, 1948-1998 (London: Ithaca Press, 2000).

Peretz, Don. Palestinians, Refugees, and the Middle East Peace Process (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 1993).

POLITICS

Palestinian Politics

Ateek, Naim. Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1989).

Brand, Laurie. Palestinians in the Arab World (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988).

Brynen, Rex. Sanctuary and Survival: The PLO in Lebanon (Boulder: Westview Press, 1990).

Gresh, Alain. The PLO: The Struggle Within (London: Zed Press, 1985).

Hudson, Michael; Editor. The Palestinians: New Directions (Washington, DC: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, 1990).

Muslih, Mohammad. The Origins of Palestinian Nationalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988).

Quandt, William et. al. The Politics of Palestinian Nationalism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973).

Robinson, Glenn E. Building a Palestinian State: The Incomplete Revolution (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997).

Sayigh, Rosemary. Too Many Enemies (London: Zed Books, 1994).

Sayigh, Yezid. Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

U.S. Role

Aruri, Naseer. The Obstruction of Peace: The U.S., Israel, and the Palestinians (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995).

Aruri, Naseer H. Dishonest Broker: The U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2003).

Christison, Kathleen. Perceptions of Palestine (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).

Chomsky, Noam. Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press, 1999).

Conflict and the Peace Process

Ashrawi, Hanan. This Side of Peace (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995).

Abbas, Mahmud. Through Secret Channels: the Road to Oslo (Reading: Garnet Publishing, 1995).

Bishara, Marwan. Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid (New York: Zed Books, 2001).

Cohen, Avner. Israel and the Bomb (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998).

Finkelstein, Norman. Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (London: Verso, 1993).

Gee, John R. Unequal Conflict: The Palestinians and Israel (New York: Olive Branch Press, 1998).

Giacaman, George, and Dag Jorund Lonning. After Oslo: New Realities, Old Problems (Chicago: Pluto Press, 1998).

Guyatt, Nicholas. The Absence of Peace: Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (New York: Zed Books, 1998).

Mallison, W.T., and S.V. Mallison. The Role of International Law in Achieving Justice and Peace in Palestine-Israel (New York: Americans for Middle East Understanding, 1974).

Pappe, Ilan; Editor. The Israel/Palestine Question (New York: Routledge, 1999).

Peretz, Don. The Arab-Israeli Dispute (New York: Facts on File, 1996).

Peretz, Don. Palestinians, Refugees, and the Middle East Peace Process (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 1993).

Reinhart, Tanya. Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002)

Quandt, William. Peace Process (Washington, DC and Berkeley: The Brookings Institute and University of California Press, 1993).

Said, Edward. The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle of Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994 (New York: Pantheon, 1994).

Said, Edward. Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East (New York: Vintage, 1995).

Shahak, Israel. Open Secrets: Israeli Foreign and Nuclear Policies (Chicago: Pluto Press, 1997).

Usher, Graham. Palestine in Crisis: The Struggle for Peace and Political Independence After Oslo (East Haven, Connecticut: Pluto Press, 1995).

OCCUPIED PALESTINE

Abu Amr, Ziyad. Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza: Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).

Aburish, Said K. Cry Palestine: Inside the West Bank (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993).

Amery, Hussein A. and Aaron T. Wolf; editors. Water in the Middle East: A Geography of Peace (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2000).

Aronson, Geoffrey. Israel, Palestinians, and the Intifada: Creating Facts on the West Bank (New York: Kegan Paul International, 1990).

Aruri, Naseer, ed. Occupation: Israel Over Palestine (Belmont: Association of Arab American University Graduates, 1989).

Baroud, Ramzy; Editor. Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion (Seattle, WA: Cune Press, 2003).

Brynen, Rex, ed. Echoes of the Intifada: Regional Repercussions of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (Boulder: Westview Press, 1991).

Carey, Roane; Editor. The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid (New York: Verso, 2001).

Chacham, Ronit. Breaking Ranks: Refusing to Serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (New York: Other Press, 2003).

Chacour, Elias. We Belong to the Land: The Story of a Palestinian Israeli Who Lives For Peace and Reconciliation (San Francisco: Harper, 1992).

Chesin, Amir S., Bill Hutman, and Avi Melamed. Separate and Unequal: The Inside Story of Israeli Rule in East Jerusalem (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999).

Doughty, Dick and Mohammed El Aydi. Gaza Legacy of Occupation: A Photographer’s Journey (West Hartford: Kumarian Press, 1995).

Dumper, Michael. The Politics of Jerusalem since 1967 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).

Dumper, Michael. Islam and Israel: Muslim Religious Endowments and the Jewish State (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1994).

Ghanem, As’ad. The Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel, 1948-2000: A Political Study (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001).

Gunn, Janet Varner. A Second Life: A West Bank Memoir (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995).

Hamzeh, Muna and Todd May; editors. Operation Defensive Shield: Witnesses to Israeli War Crimes (Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2003).

Hass, Amira. Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999).

Heiberg, Marianne. Palestinian Society in Gaza, West Bank and Arab Jerusalem: A Survey of Living Conditions (Oslo: FAFO, 1993).

Hilterman, Joost. Behind the Intifada: Labor and Women’s Movements in the Occupied Territories (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991).

Hoffman, Michael and Moshe Lieberman. The Israeli Holocaust against the Palestinians (Independent History, 2002).

Kimmerling, Baruch. Politicide: Ariel Sharon’s War against the Palestinians (New York: Verso, 2003).

Lustick, Ian. Arabs in the Jewish State: Israel’s Control of a National Minority (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980).

Monk, Daniel Bertrand. An Aesthetic Occupation : the Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002).

Nuseibeh, Said. The Dome of the Rock (New York: Rizzoli, 1996).

Shehadeh, Raja. Israel and the West Bank (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1988).

Roy, Sara M. The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development (Washington DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1995).

Rouhana, Nadim. Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).

Tamari, Salim. Jerusalem 1948: The Arab Neighborhoods and their Fate in the War (Jerusalem: Institute of Jerusalem Studies and Badil Resource Center, 1999).

Zureik, Elia. The Palestinians in Israel: A Study in Internal Colonialism (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979).

ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY

Abed, George T. The Economic Viability of a Palestinian State (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1990).

Brynen, Rex. The (Very) Political Economy of the West Bank and Gaza: Learning Lessons about Peace-Building and Development Assistance (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2000).

Diwan, Ishac and Radwan Shaban. Development Under Adversity: The Palestinian Economy (Washington, DC: World Bank, 1999).

Khalidi, Raja. The Arab Economy in Israel: The Dynamics of a Region's Development (London: Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1988).

Roy, Sara. The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1995).

Scholch, Alexander. Palestine in Transformation, 1856-1882: Studies in Social, Economic and Political Development (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1993).

WOMEN AND GENDER

Kanaaneh, Rhoda Ann. Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).

Kawar, Amal. Daughters of Palestine (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996).

Mayer, Tamar, ed. Women and the Israeli Occupation: The Politics of Change (New York: Routledge, 1994).

Najjar, Orayb Aref. Portraits of Palestinian Women (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992).

Peteet, Julie. Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991).

Rubenberg, Cheryl. Palestinian Women, Patriarchy and Resistance in the West Bank (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001).

Sabbagh, Suha, ed. Palestinian Women of Gaza and the West Bank (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).

Sharoni, Simona. Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995).

PALESTINIAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY

Abu-Ghazaleh, Adnan. Palestinian Arab Cultural Nationalism (Brattleboro: Amana Books, 1991).

Elad-Bouskila, Ami. Modern Palestinian Literature and Culture (Portland, Oregon: F. Cass, 1999).

Jayyusi, Salma Khadra, ed. Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992).

El-Khalidi, Leila. The Art of Palestinian Embroidery (London: Saqi Books, 1999).

Muhawi, Ibrahim and Sharif Kanaana, ed. Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989).

Rajab, Jehan. Palestinian Costume (New York: Ruteledge, Chapman, and Hall, 1989).

Tordai, J.C. and Graham Usher. A People Called Palestine (London: Dewi Lewis, 2001).

Weir, Shelagh. Palestinian Costume (London: British Museum Publications, 1989).

ZIONISM

Avineri, Shlomo. The Making of Modern Zionism: Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State (New York: Basic Books, 1981).

Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1992).

Brenner, Lenni. Zionism in the Age of Dictators (Westport, CT: L. Hill, 1983).

Brenner, Lenni. The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir (Totowa, NJ: 1984).

Finkelstein, Norman G. The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (New York: Verso, 2000).

Heller, Joseph. The Stern Gang: Ideology, Politics and Terror, 1940-1949 (Portland: Frank Cass, 1995).

Mezvinsky, Norton and Israel Shahak. Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel (Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 1999).

Nicosia, Francis R. The Third Reich and the Palestine Question (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2000).

Peled, Yoav and Gershon Shafir. Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Segev, Tom; trans. Haim Watzman. The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust (New York: Henry Holt, 1991).

Sharon, Ariel and David Chanoff. Warrior: An Autobiography (New York: Touchstone, 2001 [1989]).

Shindler, Colin. The Land Beyond Promise: Israel, Likud and the Zionist Dream (New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002).

Shapiro, Yonathan; trans. Ralph Mandel. The Road to Power: Herut Party in Israel (Albany: SUNY Press, 1991).

Sprinzak, Ehud. The Ascendance of Israel’s Radical Right (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).

Thomas, Gordan. Gideon's Spies: the Secret History of the Mossad (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999).

RECOMMENDED PERIODICALS ON PALESTINE

Between the Lines

Challenge

Journal of Palestine Studies

News from Within

Palestine-Israel Journal

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Arab Studies Quarterly

The Middle East Journal

Middle East Policy

Middle East Report

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs