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Modern-Day Book Burning – Ilan Pappé Speaks out against French Censorship of His Work
By Palestine Chronicle Staff “In the past, people burned books in Europe they did not want people to read – in the 21st century they just have to stop printing them.” – Ilan Pappé. […]
Children’s Lit and Collective Memory: On the Role of Culture in the Struggle for Liberation
By Benay Blend Not all Palestinians share the same experience and voice, but they are united under the commonality of multiple displacements. This theme exists in recent literature written for children and young adults, a […]
Our Vision for Liberation: A Cause with a Future – Book Review
By David Faber (Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out, Ramzy Baroud and Ilan Pappé, Clarity Press, 2022) Now that this seminal and historical political work has been launched and is making its […]
Teaching Palestine: ‘Ida in the Middle’ Wins Arab American Book Award
By Palestine Chronicle Staff ‘Ida in the Middle’, by Nora Lester Morad has won the 2023 Arab American Book Award in the young adult category. The book is centered around Ida, a Palestinian-American girl […]
Chronicling the Mandatory Rape of Palestine – A Book Review
By Jeremy Salt (Blake Alcott, The Rape of Palestine. A Mandate Chronology. 2 vols., Tredition.com.) A monumental amount of work has gone into the preparation of these two volumes, 1437 pages, excluding annexes, not just […]
Norman Solomon’s ‘War Made Invisible’ Refutes Collusion with War Makers – Book Review
By Kathy Kelly (War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine by Norman Solomon, The New Press, 2023) Following a string of United States “forever wars,” a profusion of well-written, […]
Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out – Book Review
By Lois Griffiths (Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out, by Ramzy Baroud and Ilan Pappé, Clarity Press, 2022) ‘Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out’ is […]
Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies – Critical and Lyrical Essays (BOOK REVIEW)
By Jim Miles (Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies – Critical and Lyrical Essays. Edward Curtin. Clarity Press, Atlanta, Georgia. 2020) In the introduction to “Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies – Critical […]
The Power of Memory to Reclaim What was Lost
By Benay Blend In the article “Invention, Memory, and Place,” the late Edward Said reflects on the question of collective memory: what is remembered, how, and in what form? Both Susan Abulhawa’s Against the Loveless […]
The Gift of Freedom: Support the Chronicle and Receive Signed Copy of Ramzy Baroud’s Latest Book
Dear Readers, Support The Palestine Chronicle today and receive a signed copy of Ramzy Baroud’s latest book, “These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons”. The book was described […]
Readers’ Choice: ‘My Favorite Books on Palestine’ Written by Palestinians
By Palestine Chronicle Staff A few days ago, we asked our readers on social media to share with us the title of their favorite books on Palestine, based on the following criteria: 1. Nominated […]
These Chains Will Be Broken: New Book Delivers Resistance Message from Palestinian Prisoners to the World
On Monday, January 20, Clarity Press, Inc. of Atlanta announced the launch of These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons, by Palestinian author and journalist, Ramzy Baroud, and The […]
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States – Book Review
By Jim Miles (How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. Daniel Immerwahr. Farrer, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2019.) The Greater United States of the title is not just the […]
‘These Chains Will Be Broken’: Make 2020 the Year of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners
Friends, it is finally here. “THESE CHAINS WILL BE BROKEN: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons” is the story of Palestine written by its foremost heroes and heroines, the true organic intellectuals […]
Pen and Notebook – A Short Story
By Nayrouz Qarmout (Excerpts from The Sea Clock, by Nayrouz Qarmout. Comma Press. Manchester, 2019.) Their feet were too small for the task. They lengthened their strides as the road opened up before them, breaking […]
The Voice of Palestine’s Second Occupation, Part 2 – Book Review
By Nicholas Vincenzo Barney (Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women Paperback. Jo Glanville, Editor. Telegram: May 1, 2007.) Me (the Bitch) and Bustanji, Selma Dabbagh We return to another story of a half-Palestinian in Kuwait […]
Sahar Khalifeh: The Lost Gospel of Palestinian Letters – Book Review
By Nicholas Vincenzo Barney (Wild Thorns. Sahar Khalifeh. Interlink Books, New York, 1985) For decades Palestinian literature has shown promise of making the leap from cult to major religion. There have been three leading prophets: […]
Obama’s Unending Wars: Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State – Book Review
By Jim Miles (Obama’s Unending Wars – Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State. Jeremy Kuzmarov. Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2019.) Obama is a shining light in comparison to his two bookends, […]
The Voice of Palestine’s Second Occupation, Part 1 – Book Review
By Nicholas Vincenzo Barney (Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women Paperback. Jo Glanville, Editor. Telegram: May 1, 2007.) The voice of the Palestinian woman is occupied twice over. First, by the Israeli bootheel whose half-century […]
America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy Making From Bush to Obama to Trump – Book Review
By Jim Miles (America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy Making From Bush to Obama to Trump. Sharifullah Dorani. I. B. Taurus – Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc. London/NewYork, 2019.) Sharifulla Dorani’s work, America in Afghanistan, provides an interesting […]
Preventing Palestine: A Political History From Camp David to Oslo – Book Review
By Jim Miles (Preventing Palestine – A Political History From Camp David to Oslo. Seth Anziska. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2018.) In all my recent readings of history and current events, Preventing Palestine stands […]
At Gaza Book Fair, Only Local Titles Available Due to Siege
Only local publishers could take part in the ongoing Book Fair being held in Gaza City, Safa news agency reported, stating that there are only 20,000 titles compared to previous fairs where there were hundreds of […]
Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel – Book Review
By Nicholas V. Barney There is a memorable passage from satirist Evelyn Waugh’s perhaps purposively unremembered political masterpiece “Black Mischief” (1932), in which Basil Seal, the chief Anglo architect of a modernization program in the […]
Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East – Book Review
(Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East. Christopher Davidson. Oneworld Publishing, U.K., 2016.) Written in response to the ‘Arab Spring’ initiated in Tunisia in 2011, Shadow Wars – The Secret Struggle for the […]
23-Year-Old Palestinian Wins EU-Funded MedReset Award
A Palestinian graduate has won the European Union (EU)-funded MedReset Young Writers Prize award. Twenty-three-year-old Omar Shanti graduated from Northwestern University in Illinois, USA, in 2018 with a degree in computer science, economics and Middle East […]
The Plot to Attack Iran – Book Review
By Jim Miles (The Plot to Attack Iran – How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Iran. Dan Kovalik. Skyhorse Publishing, New York, 2018.) Western mainstream media (MSM) typically present Iran […]
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History – Book Review
By Jim Miles (Palestine – A Four Thousand Year History. Nur Masalha. Zec Books, London, 2018.) The Israeli narrative of a nation/state returning to its homeland after a fifteen hundred year exile required deft work […]
Ramzy’s Baroud Book Tour in Atlanta, GA: ‘Reclaiming the Self’
Friends and Readers in Atlanta, GA I look forward to my speaking tour in your city and having the chance to meet and converse with some of you in person. If you wish to attend […]
The Russians Are Coming, Again – Book Review
By Jim Miles (The Russians are Coming, Again – The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce. Jeremy Kuzmarov and John Marciano. Monthly Review Press, New York, 2018.) The mainstream media continues to […]
The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World – Book Review
By Jim Miles (The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World. Robert Kagan. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2018.) It is always an interesting ride to read a Robert Kagan book as it is […]