Mats Svensson, a former Swedish diplomat whose personal experience of Palestine opened up the possibility of rethinking through Palestinian narratives, clarifies the role of diplomacy in the preface to...

Some years ago, I met a landlord briefly who was an Iraqi. After volunteering to tell me his land of origin, he began to explain his theory that ISIS...

'The event is about environment and resistance'

The contemporary art world has flocked for the Sharjah Biennial in the past month

As voices continue to emerge within the tradition of Anglo-Arab fictions, one constant within these narratives is the conversation surrounding the negotiation of identities between one’s traditional culture vis-à-vis...

In today’s twisted, double-speak in political accusation, some principles stay upheld.  Ronit Lentin, the Trinity College Dublin sociologist, has long specialised in race relations and this book excavates Israel’s...

This collection of well-researched essays provides an insight into the dynamics of how neoliberalism is woven within the Zionist colonial process and how it has created two opposing camps,...

“When ISIS soldiers arrest me and kill me, it will be okay, because while they will cut off my head, I’ll still have dignity, which is better than living...

Review rating: 4/5 Fredrik Meiton approaches the Zionist colonisation of Palestine from an industrialisation angle in his book “Electrical Palestine. Capital and technology from Empire to Nation” (University of...

A night of compelling debate at the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster on Monday evening concluded with 63 per cent of the 1,000-strong audience voting for the motion that “The...

Review Rating 4/5 Seraj Assi’s study on nomadism sheds light on previously obscured understandings which have contributed to the Bedouin being discussed from a colonial context. The History and...

Tim Marshall served a long stint as diplomatic editor of Britain’s Sky News. In his book “Prisoners of Geography”, he argues that topography imprisons leaders. “This was true of...

Palestinian anthropologist Suhad Jarrar-Browne at 'BAYT | The Art of Arab Hospitality'

At first glance, “Towards a Westphalia for the Middle East” seems to the reader to mirror countless other books on the region’s history. By comparing current conflicts to wars...

Review Rating: 4/5 The elimination of the Palestinian narrative from mainstream media is not a new phenomenon. Peter Manning’s study, Representing Palestine. Media and Journalism in Australia since World...

The speech given by Winston Churchill in March 1946 at the Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, is remembered mostly by his coining of the term “Iron Curtain”. However, he...

Refugee narratives beyond those which reach the mainstream media are fraught with complexities, while humanitarian aid remains insufficient. Ilana Feldman’s treatise “Life Lived in Relief — Humanitarian Predicaments and...

The pandemic of extremism is an issue all too familiar to a 21st century audience. Although droves of impressionable, misguided young people leave everything behind to join groups such...

We live in turbulent times, with international pendulums made up of states, organisations and major NGOs swinging in close proximity; near misses, blocks and crashes are inevitable. Turkey’s relations...

Review Rating: 5/5 There is always a time between the concepts of the present and forever which is inscribed in our remembrance. It is the beauty of memory which...

In the dingy backstreets of Libya, illuminated only by the headlights of parked cars, a group of women play football. A not uncommon sight in other places is warped...

With accusations of antisemitism hitting the headlines on a regular basis involving high-profile figures such as Ken Livingstone or Britain’s former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, who can be unaware...

Al Jazeera have released a new documentary on the racist group Generation Identity in France

Embroidered by Palestinian women, the Palestine History Tapestry is composed of embroidered panels depicting Palestinian history from Neolithic times to the present

How can we tackle the Israeli narrative about Palestine’s past and present, when the Palestinian people continue to struggle against Israel’s colonial occupation which bases its existence on a...

Miko Peled’s book Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five is about a grave and cruel injustice carried out by both the US and Israel. Paradoxically, the...

Rating 4/5 Why do people who are normally good commit acts of evil? A great many have been bedevilled by the question but the answer is as elusive as...

Israel’s prolonged colonisation and military occupation of Palestine has given rise to a consistent form of resistance that is implemented in everyday life, yet rarely recognised. This form of...

Imagine that you were a state in which the unruly masses of an ethnic minority rebelled in one of your provinces. Would you crush it with your own security...

Authors of shortlisted books discuss what inspired their work ad the troubles they had in completing them

Reja-e Busailah has lost two dear parts of himself over the course of his lifetime: his sight and his homeland. In his autobiography, “In the land of my birth:...

Offering an insightful account of a period often neglected by historians, Salim Tamari’s book The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine provides a window into the lost world...