Artikelsamling om det arabiske forår - den række af revolutioner og uroligheder, som siden 2010 har spredt sig fra Tunesien og ud over Nordafrika og Mellemøsten. Der ses på årsagerne bag, på hvordan begivenhederne har udfoldet sig i de forskellige lande, især Egypten og Libyen, …
Based on field research conducted by the author in 2008, this book consists of a careful examination of graffiti written on both the Palestinian and Israeli sides of the Israeli-built "separation wall". With interviews with college students on both sides about the graffiti
Shlomo Sand was born in 1946 in a displaced person's camp in Austria, to a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father, and the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a "secular Jew." With a mixture of essay and person…
Spanning decades and encompassing war, mass exodus, epic migrations and the search for individual and collective identity, The Last Earth tells the story of modern Palestine through the memories of those who have lived it
How do people and goods get in and out of Gaza? Do Gazans ever have fun? Is the Strip beautiful? And do TV reports actually reflect ordinary life inside the world's largest open-air prison? This book reveals the pleasures and pains, hopes and frustrations of Gazans going about t…
Ilan Pappe's history of modern Palestine has been updated to include the dramatic events of the 1990s and the early twenty-first century. These years, which began with a sense of optimism, as the Oslo peace accord was being negotiated, culminated in the second intifada and the i…
Beyond Occupation looks at three contentious terms that regularly arise in contemporary arguments about Israel's practices towards Palestinians in the occupied territories - occupation, colonialism and apartheid - and considers whether their meanings in international law truly a…
This book examines the issue of gender and violence in the Middle East and North Africa. While gender-based violence is a universal phenomenon, it takes interesting nuances and in this region where tradition, social norm, religion, war, and politics intermingle in a powerful spa…
