In late summer 1929, a countrywide outbreak of Arab-Jewish-British violence transformed the political landscape of Palestine forever. In contrast with those who point to the wars of 1948 and 1967, the author marks these bloody events as year zero of the Arab-Israeli conflict tha…
The Holocaust and the Nakba ("Catastrophe, " Palestinian Israelis' name for the War of Independence) both marked Israel's founding, and these two world-changing events continue to form the generations who have followed. This book shows how these complex histories play out in the…
An intimate look at the divergent histories of Israel's Jews and Arabs, and how their different but tangled histories shape Jewish and Palestinian Israelis' lives today.
Studies Palestinian nationalism by covering the political elite of Palestine and their ideology from 1856 until December 1920, when the third Palestinian Arab Congress was held in Haifa to decide the future of Palestine.
