New titles on Palestinian feminism

by Nada Elia

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Falastiniyyat rescues Palestinian feminism from obscurity. Furthermore, Elia argues that these activists were pioneers of a uniquely intersectional, antiimperial feminist politics. Far from being a Western import, local feminism consistently linked personal empowerment with collective liberation, anticolonial struggle with social transformation.

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“Never more needed than now, Falastiniyyat is a beautifully written, essential text for everyone in search of peace and justice in our time.” – Lynn Segal

by Nur Masalha

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The earliest Zionist leaders understood that Palestine was a land with a resident population—a people they intended to dispossess. Masalha’s book is the most comprehensive study to date on the concept of “transfer” in Zionist thinking from the late 1800s to the 1948 war.

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“An important and scrupulous piece of revisionist history.” – Michael Adams, Middle East International

Edited by Christopher Hitchens and Edward W. Said

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Since the Nakba in 1948, Israel has consistently denied Palestinians the most basic democratic rights. Originally published in 1988, Blaming the Victimsshows how the cruel fate of this beleaguered people has been justified by spurious scholarship and biased journalism.

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“This book adds an extra layer of temporal self-consciousness and sophistication to the arguments for reparations. It is clear and incisive in its account of the racialization of temporal power.” – Peter Osborne

by Rashid Khalidi and Tariq Ali

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In The Neck and the Sword, Rashid Khalidi and Tariq Ali bring to bear the lessons learned from a lifetime of political engagement and study in order to comprehend a sea change in Middle East politics.

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Since 2023, the world has witnessed the decimation of Gaza, the slaughter of its residents, and the terrorization of Palestinians in the West Bank. As a consequence, support for the Palestinian struggle, which for decades has been shunned and maligned, has swelled to an unprecedented level across the US, Europe, and beyond. What future now awaits Palestine?