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I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody By Sinan Antoon, City Lights Publishers, 2007, 97 pp. List: $11.95; AET: $9.50. Author, educator, filmmaker, poet and translator Sinan Antoon is a bright new star [...]

Long-time political cartoonist for the Washington Report Khalil Bendib kicked off his 'presidential campaign' with a packed house at Mudraker's Cafe in Berkeley, CA on Aug. 30. Wearing his signature [...]

San Francisco's SomArts Cultural Center hosted 'Mexico/Palestine: Unspoken Borders' on Aug. 11 as part of a month-long exhibit on Latin America entitled 'Prophecy/Healing: Artists and Communities Confront Global Crisis.' Based [...]

A Little Piece of Ground By Elizabeth Laird with Sonia Nimr, Haymarket Books, 2006, 221 pp. List: $9.95; AET $8. As all those interested in the issue of Palestine know, [...]

The Woman I Left Behind By Kim Jensen, Curbstone Press, 2006, 204 pp. List: $15; AET $12. If you care about the Palestinian struggle for justice, if you love a [...]

The Boy and the Wall By Amahl Bishara, Lajee Center, 2005, 24 pp. List: $22.50; AET: $18. Poignantly illustrated by children living in the West Bank's Aida Refugee Camp--Linda al-Azzeh, [...]

I remember Damu coming into the Washington Report office several years ago, when he was in the process of co-founding Black Voices for Peace (BVFP) in response to U.S. military [...]

U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East: The Role of Lobbies and Special Interest Groups. By Janice J. Terry, Pluto Press, 2005, 160 pp. List: $24.95; AET: $18. In light [...]

Coffins on Our Shoulders: The Experience of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel By Dan Rabinowitz and Khawla Abu-Baker, University of California Press, 2005, 221 pp. List: $19.95; AET: $15. Although [...]

A War Too Far: Iraq, Iran and the New American Century By Paul Rogers, Pluto Press, 2006, 300 pp. List: $25.95; AET: $20. A War Too Far is a compilation [...]

Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog From Iraq By Riverbend, The Feminist Press, 2005, 286 pp. List: $14.95; AET: $12. Riverbend--the nom de plume of a young Iraqi woman--provides her readers with [...]

Sabeel, the Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center based in Jerusalem, held a conference March 3 and 4 at Washington, DC's New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. In her opening keynote address to [...]

Black Voices for Peace (BVFP) remembered Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy on Jan. 16 at the Plymouth Congregational Church in Washington, DC. Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy [...]

Former Washington Report staffer Randa Kayyali discussed her new book, The Arab Americans, at the Palestine Center in Washington, DC on Jan. 26. Her book is part of a series [...]

An urgent yet hopeful tone pervaded the annual Palestine Center conference, held Nov. 18, 2005 in Washington, DC. Noted scholar Dr. Naseer Aruri introduced the theme of the conference, 'Palestine [...]

The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock By Virginia Tilley, The University of Michigan Press, 2005, 276 pp. List: $27.95; AET: $20. Following on Mazin Qumsiyeh's [...]

A Sultan in Palermo By Tariq Ali, Verso, 2005, 246 pp. List: $24; AET: $20. Reading any work by Tariq Ali is a treat, be it politics or fiction. Ali's [...]

American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) hosted its annual dinner Sept. 17 in Washington, DC, where it is based, on the theme, 'Education Creates the Future.' A reception beforehand featured [...]

The Washington, DC-based Palestine Center hosted famed Israeli television anchorman Haim Yavin on Oct. 25, to discuss and show clips from his five-part documentary series, 'The Land of the Settlers.' [...]

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) celebrated its 90th anniversary in San Francisco Aug. 10-14 by deciding to focus on two huge issues--the Middle East and water--for [...]

Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and The Abuse of History By Norman G. Finkelstein, University of California Press, 2005, 332 pp. List: $22.50; AET: $15. Author Norman Finkelstein [...]

Neocon Middle East Policy: The 'Clean Break' Plan Damage Assessment By Adam Shapiro, E. Faye Williams, Khaled Dawoud, Muhammed Kaddam and William Martin, The Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, [...]

When the Rain Returns: Toward Justice and Reconciliation in Palestine and Israel Prepared by an International Quaker Working Party on Israel and Palestine, American Friends Service Committee, 2004, 326 pp. [...]

Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark announced the formation of the Emergency Committee for Iraq on June 15 at the National Press Club. Co-chairs, including Clark; former Prime Minister of Malaysia [...]

The Arab American Institute (AAI) honored United Nations' Adviser Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi, Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the International Save the Children Alliance, and former Cabinet member Spencer [...]

Wahhabi Islam By Natana DeLong-Bas, Oxford University Press, 2004, 370 pp. List: $35; AET: $27.50. As I was reading Wahhabi Islam on the bus, a fellow passenger asked me if [...]

Demonstrators in more than 700 cities throughout the U.S. took to the streets March 19 to mark the second anniversary of the 'shock and awe' bombing which inaugurated the U.S.-led [...]

Women in Struggle By Buthina Canaan Khoury, Majd Production Company, 2004. Video cassette or DVD, 56 mins. List: $25. Among the many excellent documentaries about the plight of the Palestinians, [...]

At a March 16 event at the Palestine Center in Washington, DC, filmmaker Buthina Canaan Khoury, shared some of the fruits of a four-year-long project when she screened her new [...]

Women For Women International cofounder Zainab Salbi talked about her work with women in post-conflict situations at a March 8, 2005 Palestine Center briefing in Washington, DC. Salbi asserted the [...]

At the Barnes and Noble bookstore in downtown Washington, DC on Feb. 17, Saudi Arabian poet Nimah Ismail Nawwab read from and discussed her recent book, The Unfurling, before a [...]

As is customary, 40 days after Hisham Sharabi's death he was remembered at a Feb. 17 memorial service at the Palestine Center in Washington, DC, which he helped found. A [...]

Speaking at the Palestine Center in Washington, DC on Feb. 18, former U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Denis Halliday faulted the U.N. for not acting according to its principles. Having resigned from [...]

Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle By Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, Pluto Press, 2004, 236 pp. List: $22.95, AET: $17 'What right brings in Russian Jews [...]

For the first time since American presidential inaugural parades began marching down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, an opposition group was allowed to have bleachers to protest along the parade [...]

Oil, Power, and Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda By Larry Everest, Common Courage Press, 2004, 391 pp, List: $19.95; AET: $14.50. The quest for empire has been authoritatively [...]

Conspiring Against Joseph By Sami Al-Arian, National Liberty Fund, 2004, 238 pp. List: $14.95; AET: $12. Only time will tell if Sami Al-Arian's prison poetry lives on as literary evidence [...]

Shackled Dreams: A Palestinian's Struggle for Truth, Justice and the American Way--The Story of Sami A. Al-Arian Compiled by the National Liberty Fund, National Liberty Fund, 2004, 220 pp. List: [...]

In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story By Ghada Karmi, Verso, 2002, 451 pp. List: $16; AET: $11. Like Edward Said's Out of Place, Karmi's memoir is a story of [...]

The Network of Arab American Professionals held its second annual conference in Boston, MA over the weekend of Sept. 24 to 26. Founded to advance Arab Americans and Arab culture, [...]

To protest the siege of Fallujah, Code Pink called an Aug. 13 protest in front of the newly reopened Iraqi Embassy in Washington, DC. Demonstrators said they called the protest [...]

The Washington, DC chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) held a fund-raiser Sept. 4 at Mimi's American Bistro in Washington, DC to pay for activist Luci Murphy's travel to [...]

About 100 people gathered at 'United in Song' at Washington, DC's Lincoln Park on Sept. 6 to hear a variety of singers and activists perform for world peace and understanding. [...]

51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration With the Nazis By Lenni Brenner, ed. Barricade Books, 2002, 342 pp. List: $22; AET: $15. It's no secret that Zionism embraced political expediency to advance [...]