Resources:
Books:
- The Way to the Spring—Ben Ehrenreich
- The Lemon Tree—Sandy Tolan
- Question on Palestine—Edward Said
- Mornings in Jenin—Susan Abulhawa (historical fiction following the massacres of 1948 through the 1967 war and beyond).
- Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape—Raja Shehadeh
- Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation—Eyal Weizman
- The Ethnic cleansing of Palestine—Ilan Pappe
- A Line in the Sand: Britain France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East—James Barr (not Palestine specific, about the division of the Middle East)
- In Search of Fatima—Ghada Karmi
- Palestine—Joe Sacco
- The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World—Avi Shlaim
- Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life—Sari Nussaibah
- Extreme Rambling: Walking Israel’s Separation Barrier For Fun—Mark Thomas (a comedian’s political take on the Wall and the conflict).
- Life Under Occupation—Jose Garcia
- The Battle for Justice in Palestine—Ali Abunimah
- Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929
- Orientalism—Edward Said
- The De-Devlopment of Gaza—Sara Roy
- Hamas Contained—Tareq Baconi
- Living Emergency—Yael Berda (about the permit and ID system imposed on Palestinians by Israel).
- Refugees of the Revolution—Diana Allan
- Notes on a Foreign Country—Suzy Hansen
- Back to Haifa—Ghassan Kanafani
- This Side of Peace—Hanan Ashrawi
- Dinner at the Center of the Earth (fictional love story with historical basis).
- Arab/Muslim Feminist Perspective:
- Do Muslim Women Need Saving—Lila Abu Lughod,
- The Veil and the Male Elite—Fatima Mernissi,
- Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist—Anbara Salam Khalidi
- Women and Gender in Islam—Leila Ahmed
Movies:
Reference for good movies/documentaries (includes several we have listed below and more): https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-top-10-documentaries-about-the-israelpalestine-conflict/
- 5 Broken Cameras
- Jenin, Jenin
- Slingshot Hip Hop (documentary on the birth of hip hop in Palestine): watch on youtube
- Arna’s Children: documentary about a former Israeli soldier who marries a Palestinian and moves to Jenin and becomes and activist and mentor and follows her activity and the outcomes of the Palestinian children she works with.
- Budrus: documentary about nonviolent resistance in Budrus village against Israeli expropriation of their land supported by Israeli activists.
- Peace Propoganda and the Promised Land: documentary about US media coverage of Palestine, Israel, and the Occupation and how it creates misperceptions about what is happening, and has happened there.
- Omar: fictional love story about two Palestinian teenagers separated by the Wall between Jerusalem and the West Bank.