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Palestine-Israel Conflict

Encyclopedias and Historical Dictionaries

Faure, Claude, editor. Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Culture, History and Politics. Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. [Link to Preus Library users]

Kumaraswamy, P. R. Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. 2nd ed., Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. [Link to Preus Library users]

Mattar, Philip, editor. Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. Rev. ed, Facts On File, 2005. [Call number at Preus Library: Ref DS113.6 .E53 2005]

Nazzal, Nafez, and Laila A. Nazzal. Historical Dictionary of Palestine. Scarecrow Press, 1997. [Call number at Preus Library: Ref DS102.8 .N397 1997]

Historical Background

Bassiouni, M. Cherif, and Shlomo Ben Ami, editors. A Guide to Documents on the Arab-Palestinian/Israeli Conflict: 1897-2008. Brill, 2009. Link to Preus Library users.

Felton, John. The Contemporary Middle East: A Documentary History. CQ Press, 2008. [Call number at Preus Library: DS42 .F44 2008]

Fromkin, David. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East. 2nd ed, , 2009. [Call number at Preus Library: DS63.2.G7 F76 2009]

Khalidi, Rashid. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Metropolitan Books, 2022.  [Call number at Preus Library: DS119.7 .K4279 2021

Laqueur, Walter, and Barry M. Rubin, editors. The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict. 6th rev. ed, Penguin Books, 2001. [Call number at Preus Library: DS119.7 .I8256 2001]

Masalha, Nur. Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History. ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2022. [Call number at Preus Library: DS117 .M375 2022]

Moore, John Norton and American Society of International Law, editors. The Arab-Israeli Conflict. Princeton University Press, 1975. [Call number at Preus Library: DS119.7 .A67 1975]

Pappé, Ilan. A History of Modern Palestine. 3rd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2022. [Call number at Preus Library: DS125 .P298 2022]

Regan, Bernard. The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine. Verso, 2017. [Call number at Preus Library: DS125.5 .R42 2017]

Said, Edward W. The Question of Palestine. Vintage Books, 1992. [Call number at Preus Library: DS119.7 .S333 1992]

Smith, Charles D. Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. 6th ed, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007.  [Call number at Preus Library: DS119.7 .S618 2007]

Contemporary perspectives

 

Aruri, Naseer Hasan, editor. Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return. Pluto Press, 2001. [Call number at Preus Library: HV640.5.P36 P35 2001]

Barghūthī, Murīd, and Ahdaf Soueif. I Saw Ramallah. Anchor Books, 2003. [Call number at Preus Library: PJ7816.A682 R3313 2003]

Chomsky, Noam, and Ilan Pappé. On Palestine. Edited by Frank Barat, Haymarket Books, 2015. [Call number at Preus Library: DS119.76 .C56 2015]

Davis, Angela Y. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Haymarket Books, 2016. [Call number at Preus Library: JC571 .D38 2016]

Ganim, Asʻad. Palestinian Politics after Arafat: A Failed National Movement. Indiana University Press, 2010. Link to Preus Library users.

Grossman, David. To the End of the Land. Translated by Jessica Cohen, Vintage International, 2011.  [Call number at Preus Library: PJ5054.G728 I8413 2011]

Isaac, Munther. The Other Side of the Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope. InterVarsity Press, 2020.  [Call number at Preus Library: BR1110 .I85 2020]

Masalha, Nur. The Palestine Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory. Zed Books, 2012. Link to Preus Library users.

Omer, Mohammed. Shell-Shocked: On the Ground under Israel’s Gaza Assault. Haymarket Books, 2015. [Call number at Preus Library: DS119.76 .O465 2015]

Pappé, Ilan. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oneworld, 2007. [Call number at Preus Library: DS119.7 .P39 2007]

Pappé, Ilan, and Noam Chomsky. Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel’s War against the Palestinians. Revised and Updated edition. Haymarket Books, 2013. Link to Preus Library users.

Raheb, Mitri. I Am a Palestinian Christian. Fortress Press, 1995. [Call number at Preus Library: BT93.8 .R34 1995]

Ross, Andrew. Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel. Verso, 2021. [Call number at Preus Library: HD9715.P2 R67 2021]

Said, Edward W. From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map. Vintage Books, 2005.  [Call number at Preus Library: E885 .S25 2005]

Shlaim, Avi. Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations. Verso, 2010.  [Call number at Preus Library: DS119.7 .S47624 2010]

Van Esveld, Bill. Separate and Unequal: Israel’s Discriminatory Treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Human Rights Watch, 2010. Link.

White, Ben. Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy. Pluto Press, 2012. Link to Preus Library users.

Selected articles

Almashharawi, Kamal. “I Can Help Rebuild Gaza. First I Need to Survive Today.” The New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023. [Link

Klein, Naomi. “Let Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World.” London Review of Books, vol. 38, no. 1, June 2016, pp. 11–14. [Link]

Nave, Guy. “We’re Again Confronted with a Choice of “Nonviolence or Non-Existence.” ILLUMINATION-Curated, 24 Oct. 2023. [Link]

Sullivan, Becky. “Israel Incursion into Gaza Targeted Hamas Leaders to Prepare for ‘next Stages of War.’” NPR, 26 Oct. 2023. [Link}

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