Memory and metaphor intertwine in Ghassan Zaqtan’s “Where the Bird Disappeared” (Seagull Books, 2018), to the point that, at times, seeking to distinguish one from the other is akin...

When a last request turns into a journey, Palestine becomes tangible. Rabai Al-Madhoun’s novel, Fractured Destinies (Hoopoe Fiction, 2018), weaves narrations of love, exile and loss, while edging continuously...

“If the breath and heart remain steady as the eye slips from “centenary” to “half-century” to “decade,” this is because the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has endured so long that it...

The erasure of Palestinian memory is often wrongly associated with the past. When combined with narratives that exclude Palestinians from their ongoing displacement, it is imperative to challenge both...

When British colonial forces took down the Union Flag and sailed out of Haifa port in 1948, they not only left Israel behind them but also colonial practices and...

If this book had to be described succinctly, it is a perfect example of the different components that construct an implosion. Marcello Di Cintio’s “Pay No Heed to the...

“The stories told about Palestine-Israel are as notable for what they exclude as they are for what they include.” This is an apt introduction to the three main narratives...

What we are accustomed to reading as structured news items or analysis about Palestine quickly dissipate in Richard Hardigan’s book “The Other Side of the Wall: an eyewitness account...

Israel’s colonial violence against Palestinians has produced several trajectories encroaching upon the indigenous population and their geophysical space. As a result, Palestinian resilience and resistance has been diverse, a...

Dima Al-Samman is a contemporary Palestinian-Jerusalemite novelist. She was born and raised in occupied Jerusalem and earned her bachelor’s degree in linguistics from Birzeit University. Further studies saw her...

“On the first day of their journey, they walked for twenty long hours. On the second, they walked from eight in the morning until three the next morning. No...

To impart narratives of displacement, it is important to listen to the echoes of such trajectories. Ramzy Baroud’s latest book, The Last Earth: a Palestinian story, propels this dimension...

Beyond the accessible narratives in the form of reports and news briefs which run the risk of normalising decades of colonial violence against Palestinians, art manages to impart the...

Since the beginning of the Saudi-led “Operation Decisive Storm” in March 2015, information regarding Yemen has proven to be scarce. Most of the voices on Yemen are provided by...

It is a rare occurrence that an analytical treatise can navigate the humanitarian spectrum without falling prey to dissociation. Yet it is precisely this achievement which makes “Gaza: an...

Weaving personal stories intricately with unique insights from the world of international diplomacy, Donald Macintyre’s book Gaza: Preparing for Dawn paints a vivid picture of this small strip of...

Ibrahim Nasrallah has woven a tale in which themes intertwine; where possibilities and peril are never isolated from each other. “Gaza Weddings” (Hoopoe Press, 2017) immediately presents the reader...

Eyal Weizman commences his discussion of humanitarian violence with a succinct reflection: “It is through the collateral – flood or blood – that a government – divine or human...

Bernard Regan might have simply retired from serving on the National Executive of the National Union of Teachers, and continued to be on the Executive of the Palestine Solidarity...

One of this year winner of the Palestine Book Awards, Laila Parsons

The first impression that sprang to mind upon reading the first few pages of this collection of Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry is the impossibility of quantifying the sense of nostalgia...

Against a modified backdrop of Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet”, altered to evoke symbolism of the political differences between Hamas and Fatah, journalist Donald Macintyre notes the absence of...

One of this year winner of the Palestine Book Awards, Laila Parsons, talks about her book 'The Commander'

Travelogues are a well-known genre within medieval literature; from Ibn Battutah to Ibn Jubayr’s travels, they demonstrate how curious these explorers were. In more recent times, the travelogues have...

One of this year winner of the Palestine Book Awards, Bjorn Brenner talks about his book 'Gaza Under Hamas'

The author, Ben Ehrenreich introduces readers to his book “The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine” with this sharp observation: “The world is made not only...

A book which takes into account 'imperial history, partition remappings, and post/colonial dislocations'

Butterfly is not your average schoolgirl; at least not if you went to school in the UK. One of her best friends calls herself Dalal Mughrabi after the female...

Ibtisam Barakat’s house in Ramallah is made of memories, not stone, she tells us. It is made of birds migrating in the sky, of her mother and father, of...

Unravelling the definition of exile presents one immediate question as to whether the concept is a burden, a transcendent state or a sliver of fate that opens up a...

An important contribution to the preservation of Palestinian memory, Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre confronts Israel’s efforts to consign it to oblivion through the dimensions of textual narrative and...

One of this year winner of the Palestine Book Awards, Ilan Pappé, talks about his book 'The Biggest Prison on Earth'