Review – Books

  Author: Nurhan Abujid Paperback: 274 pages Publisher: Routledge ISBN-10: 0745334261 Review by Ramona Wadi "The contemporary military urbanisation is about spatial engineering and reorganisation via complex surveillance and...

British colonialist rule was in part, supported by perfecting the ideology of divide and rule. Their mastery of this ensured several centuries of colonial subjugation that propelled the British...

Ilan Pappé makes a succinct statement in the introduction to his latest book: "Indeed, Israel is one of a few states considered by many to be at best morally...

Author: Nicholas Gilby Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Pluto Press ISBN-10: 0745334261 Review by Alastair Sloan To say the international arms trade is corrupt is much like asserting that water...

Deconstructing the mythological 'right to land' would prove a crucial requirement to achieve an understanding of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Shlomo Sand's new book, The Invention of...

In George Orwell's novel 1984, Winston Smith, whose job it is to edit historical documents so they reflect the party line, reads from Goldstein's book. "In accordance to the...

Janan Abdu is a Palestinian social and feminist campaigner and researcher. Her husband Ameer Makhoul is also a human rights activist on behalf of Palestinians living in Israel; imprisoned,...

Meticulously researched, Hamas and Civil Society: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector (Princeton University Press, 2011) is a significant study of Hamas and Gaza's social institutions. The evolution of Hamas...

Every week, inmates at the Israeli prison of Beer Al-Sabe' hold political debates inside their cells. What are the benefits of negotiations with Israel; how useful is the Palestine...

Denationalisation is the fundamental problem of Palestinians. The systematic annihilation of fundamental freedoms for Palestinians has resulted in an ongoing process of changes in demography, geography and social structure....

The frailty of hope and the power of resistance weave an intricate story of contrasts. When the country in question is Palestine, hope and resistance merge and deviate as...

"We come together on this book not because we agree on everything – we don't – but because of a shared belief that Jews and Palestinians are destined to...

Flouting international human rights law and international humanitarian law, Israel's occupation of Palestine veers towards the illegal and illegitimate. Beyond Occupation: Apartheid, Colonialism and International law in the Occupied...

It's 2012 and Leila Khaled can still manage to stir-up controversy. In May, the staff members at Manchester's branch of the Blackwell's bookshop were inundated with phone calls; the...

Antony Lerman has spent his whole working life at the heart of the Jewish community. While he is now well known for his radical views on Israel, it was...

I never met Kathleen's late husband Bill, though after reading 'It's All Right, I'm Only Crying', I feel as though I know him. I know that he liked to...

It has been often said that the conflict in Palestine cannot be resolved without a fundamental change of policy in Washington. There is some truth in this. No other...

It's the abundance of Raja Shehadeh's daily accounts, filled with frustration and despair, which makes you realise just how far the Israeli occupation reaches into every corner of Palestinians'...

Few issues on the world stage are more divisive than the Israel-Palestine conflict, which triggers a powerful emotional response even among people with little direct stake in it. But...

Recent statements made by the British ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, indicate a decline in British public and political support for Israel. It also indicates how much European public...

Let me start with a confession: I am a signed-up member of the Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel, as well as the Friends of Palestine. Why? Because I am...

To many observers, Iran's foreign policy is at best unclear and, at worst, unpredictable. This study by Mahboubeh Sadeghinia offers an in-depth explanation of the complex factors that have...

Jordan, described as a new "emerging market" with "high human development", is a forward thinking, predominantly Muslim state. It has signed an array of treaties and is the beneficiary...

This is Dr Mabrouka al-Werfalli's timely offering for readers to gain a better understanding of Libya's complex political, social and economic milieu in the wake of the 2011 revolution....

Clayton Swisher's fascinating publication of the Palestinian Papers (leaked to and broadcast by Al Jazeera and The Guardian) is subtitled pessimistically "The End of the Road". His basic thesis...

Omar Barghouti is a founding member of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel and so he is in a perfect position to write a book charting...

Western journalists often shy away from writing on Palestine. They believe that so much has already been written about the century-old conflict that it is hard to find a...

Author: Zeina B. Ghandour Hardback: 197 pagesPublisher: Routeledge (2010)ISBN 10: 0-415-48993-8Review by Samira QuraishyA Discourse on Domination in Mandate Palestine: Imperialism, Property and Insurgency sends the reader on a...

The Palestinian cause has been, and will remain the most important issue in the Arab world until it is resolved in accordance with international and humanitarian laws. Many people...

Historians living within their own nations develop within the mythology peculiar to their nation, in which "various spheres of memory coalesced into an imagined universe representing the past." The...

The essential point of M. Shahid Alam's book, Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism, comes clear upon opening the book to the inscription in the frontispiece. From the...

Palestine in pieces: Graphic perspectives on the Israeli Occupation is the most recent contribution by Kathleen and Bill Christison in their long standing effort to bring into the public...