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• Salt Houses

  Alyan, Hala, 1986-

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  Foreseeing blessings and troubles in the lives of her daughter and grandchildren, Salma endures hardships stemming from the Six-Day War of 1967 in Palestine before rebuilding in Kuwait, and again when the family is scattered by Saddam…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Against the Loveless World

  A Novel

  Abulhawa, Susan

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  A young Palestinian refugee slowly becomes radicalized while searching for a better life for her family throughout the Middle East.

• Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

  Hindi, Noor

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  In this defiant and urgent collection, Palestinian American poet Noor Hindi explores Arab womanhood, migration, colonialism, and queerness with evocative lyricism.

• The Gaza Kitchen

  a Palestinian Culinary Journey

  El-Haddad, Laila M.,

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  El-Haddad shares the little-known but distinctive cuisine of the Gaza region of Palestine, presenting more than a hundred recipes for spicy stews, piquant dips, fragrantly flavored fish dishes, and honey-drenched desserts.

• You Exist Too Much

  a Novel

  Arafat, Zaina,

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  Told in vignettes that occur in American and Middle East settings, a young Palestinian American experiences marginalization for her sexual orientation before the traumas of her past drive her toward self-destructive impulses.

• The Beauty of Your Face

  A Novel

  Mustafah, Sahar

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  Enduring the harrowing minutes of an attack on her school by a radicalized assailant, a school principal and daughter of Palestinian immigrants experiences flashbacks about the bigotry she faced as a child and the disappearance of an older…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

  A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

  Khalidi, Rashid

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  Khalidi presents a history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict told from the Palestinian perspective, arguing the period since the Balfour Declaration of 1917 has amounted to a hundred years of colonial war against the Palestinians.

• Rifqa

  El-Kurd, Mohammed,

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  Through poetry, El-Kurd narrates his own experience of dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah--an infamous neighborhood in Jerusalem, Palestine, whose population of refugees continues to live on the brink of homelessness.

• Enter Ghost

  a Novel

  Hammad, Isabella,

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  A stage actress returns to Palestine to visit her older sister and becomes unwittingly involved with a local group who wants to put on a production of Hamlet in the West Bank using all Palestinian actors.

• Mother of Strangers

  A Novel

  Amiry, Suad

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  Based on a true story, the lives of a gifted 15-year-old mechanic and the 13-year-old peasant girl he hopes to marry are set against the backdrop of the indiscriminate bombing of Jaffa and the displacements of Palestinian families.

• One State

  The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel

  Karmi, Ghada

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  In this book, Karmi powerfully argues that a democratic one-state settlement is the best possible route to a just future for all concerned, including Palestinian refugees.

• We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders

  a Memoir of Love and Resistance

  Sarsour, Linda, 1980-

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  Women's March co-organizer Linda Sarsour shares how growing up Palestinian Muslim American, feminist, and empowered moved her to become a globally recognized and celebrated activist on behalf of marginalized communities across the country.

• A Woman Is No Man

  a Novel

  Rum, Etaf,

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  Three generations of Palestinian American women in contemporary Brooklyn are torn by individual desire, educational ambitions, a devastating tragedy, and the strict mores of traditional Arab culture.

• Mornings in Jenin

  A Novel

  Abulhawa, Susan

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  This heart-wrenching novel explores how several generations of one Palestinian family cope with the loss of their land after the 1948 creation of Israel and their subsequent life in Palestine, which is often marred by war and violence.

• I Saw Ramallah

  Barghouti, Mourid

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  A Palestinian poet and intellectual offers a memoir of his return to the West Bank after thirty years of exile, noting the changes in his birthplace and family since his departure in 1967.

• Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

  Poems From Gaza

  Abu Toha, Mosab,

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  In his poetry debut, the first collection from any Gazan poet to be published in English, the author writes directly from the experience of growing up and living one's entire life in Gaza, the world's largest open-air prison camp.

• Wild Thorns

  Khalīfah, Saḥar

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  This chronicle of life in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, with its panorama of characters and unsentimental portrayals of everyday life, is the first Arab novel to give a true picture of social and personal relations under occupation.

• A Curious Land

  Stories From Home

  Darraj, Susan Muaddi,

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  Darraj's short story collection about the inhabitants of a Palestinian West Bank village, Tel al-Hilou, spans generations and continents to explore ideas of memory, belonging, connection, and, ultimately, the deepest and richest meaning of…Read moreRead more of this annotation