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I told them Ali is 6 years old. They gave me an 18 kilogram bag of body parts. --A parent who survived the Gaza City massacre at al-Tabin school, Aug. [...]

ONE YEAR INTO the Israel-U.S. genocidal war on Gaza, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in combat in Tal al-Sultan in Rafah. For Palestinians (and Arabs generally), he was a [...]

ADDRESSING THE U.N. in September, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held up a map of historic Palestine, in which the West Bank and Gaza Strip were not delineated; the whole [...]

'Whoever is in solidarity with our corpses but not our rockets is a hypocrite and not one of us.' --From the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University in New York [...]

Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture Edited by Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller, with Juliette Touma and Jayyab Abusafia, Saqi Books, 2024, paperback, 336 pp. MEB $21.95 [...]

PALESTINIANS HAVE BEEN RESISTING the Israeli colonial war machine for 75 years, and that resistance took a dramatic turn on Oct. 7, 2023. On that day, an audacious Hamas military [...]

The Land in Our Bones: Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures From Syria to the Sinai--Earth-Based Pathways to Ancestral Stewardship and Belonging in Diaspora By Layla K. Feghali, North Atlantic Books, [...]

IN LATE JANUARY, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced its finding that South Africa presented plausible evidence that Israel has committed acts that violate the Genocide Convention in Gaza. [...]

The fact that Israel feels so free to annihilate the Palestinian people while the world watches should terrify all of us. --Lebanese-American political activist, musician and author Peter Daou NO [...]

THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED Palestine Writes Literature Festival, a celebration of Palestinian cultural heritage, officially opened on Sept. 22. More than 1,300 people registered for the weekend extravaganza held at the University [...]

Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation Edited by Aline Batarseh, Jessica Anderson and Yosra El Gazzar, Haymarket Books, 2024, hardcover, 392 pp. MEB $50 If [...]

I Found Myself in Palestine: Stories of Love and Renewal From Around the Globe Edited by Nora Lester Murad, Olive Branch Press, 2024, paperback, 256 pp. MEB $20 This collection [...]

ISRAEL MARKED ITS DIAMOND JUBILEE in May, and although 75 years is a mere hiccup in the history of nations whose people are actually rooted in a geography, it provides [...]

Deluge: Gaza and Israel From Crisis to Cataclysm Edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner, OR Books, 2024, paperback, 336 pp. MEB $21.95 Putting together a collection of essays about an ongoing war [...]

Anyone who follows the news from Gaza is quickly numbed by the mind-boggling casualty rates, which seem to double from one day to the next. But to really understand the [...]

Three high-profile Biden administration employees who resigned over the past several months in protest of the administration's position on Israel's bombing of Gaza joined the Foundation for Middle East Peace [...]

Last year, the Museum of the Palestinian People conceptualized a street festival celebrating Palestinian culture, but then Oct. 7 happened, and while the staff didn't want to cancel the event [...]

During the last week of January, activists who were appalled by the genocide in Gaza decided to set up an encampment outside the McLean, VA home of Secretary of State [...]

Considering the speed with which Israel has killed about 30,000 noncombatants, injured tens of thousands more and imposed famine conditions on the entire Gaza Strip, it is easy to lose [...]

An Honest Living: A Memoir of Peculiar Itineraries By Steven Salaita, Fordham University Press, 2024, hardcover, 178 pp. MEB $24.95 An Honest Living: A Memoir of Peculiar Itineraries is a [...]

The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub: Or, How the Bethlehemites Discovered Amerka By Jacob Norris, Stanford University Press, 2023, paperback, 290 pp. MEB $25 This wonderfully readable book describes [...]

Billed as a celebration of resilience, the American Palestinian Women's Association (APWA) hosted an evening event on March 2 in honor of International Women's Day. Labeled 'We Will Rise,' the [...]

Decolonizing the Palestinian Mind By Haidar Eid, LeftWord Books, 2023, paperback, 105 pp. MEB $15 The Palestinian revolutionary Basil Al-Araj, who was assassinated by Israel in 2017, exhorted his countrymen [...]

Tracing Homelands: Israel, Palestine and the Claims of Belonging By Linda Dittmar, Interlink Books, 2023, paperback, 240 pp. MEB $20 Tracing Homelands is a beautifully written memoir that traces the [...]

PEOPLE FILLED the Alexandria Athenaeum in Virginia on a Saturday morning in early August to attend the launch of Zeina Azzam's poetry collection, Some Things Never Leave You (Tiger Bark [...]

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World By Antony Loewenstein, Verso, 2023, hardcover, 304 pp. MEB $29.95 Perhaps more than any other book published [...]

Conditions in Palestine are pretty dire these days, but Mazin Qumsiyeh--a Bethlehem University professor and founder of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability--is an optimist. As part of a [...]

We Are Palestinian: A Celebration of Culture and Tradition By Reem Kassis, illustrated by Noha Eilouti, Crocodile Books, 2023, hardcover, 112 pp. MEB $19.95 Anyone who is raising Palestinian children [...]

The Untold Story of the Golan Heights: Occupation, Colonization and Jawlani Resistance Edited by Muna Dajani, Munir Fakher Eldin and Michael Mason, I.B. Tauris, 2023, paperback, 226 pp. MEB $35 [...]

Dr. Yasser Abu-Jamei, a Palestinian psychologist and the director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, was in the Washington, DC area for several speaking engagements this winter, as part [...]

During the last weekend in January, Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro spoke to audiences at Busboys and Poets and Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington, DC. Amro, [...]

Weaponizing Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn By Asa Winstanley, OR Books, 2023, paperback, 300 pp. MEB $25 Jeremy Corbyn's 2015 rise as Labour Party leader inspired [...]

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire Edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing and Michael Merryman-Lotze, Haymarket Books, 2022, paperback, 280 pp. MEB $24.95 This collection of 15 essays and [...]

Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home By Fida Jiryis, Hurst, 2023, hardcover, 447 pp. MEB $35 Stranger in My Own Land tells the [...]

Mother of Strangers: A Novel By Suad Amiry, Pantheon Books, 2022, hardcover, 344 pp. MEB $27 Suad Amiry's first work of fiction is nominally a story of thwarted teenage romance [...]

ON A LOVELY FALL afternoon, more than 300 people made their way to Lake Accotink Park in Springfield, VA to attend the second annual Growing Palestine (GP) Heritage Picnic. The [...]

WHY WOULD ISRAEL bring state muscle to bear on Palestinian farmers who are not engaged in anything remotely resembling military activity? All farmers have felt, to varying degrees, the effect [...]

Qalandia, north of Jerusalem, is a major checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem. The wall isolates 30,000 Palestinians in Kafr Aqab and Qalandia. One of those is Fatima Assad. This is [...]