By Hatim Kanaaneh I am no romantic poet. Yet Susan Abulhawa’s first published collection of poems (My Voice Sought The Wind, Just World Books, 2013) slices directly to my heart. Like her, I once wrote […]
By Richard Falk OMAR is the second film directed by Hany Alu-Assad to be a finalist among foreign language films nominated to receive an Oscar at the 2014 Academy Awards ceremony on March 2nd. The […]
Review by Jim Miles (From Postmodernism to Postsecularism – Re-Emerging Islamic Civilization. Eric Walberg. Clarity Press, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. 2013.) In his introduction, Eric Walberg states, “The main purpose of this book is to help […]
Review by Ludwig Watzal (Michael Quilligan, Understanding Shadows. The Corrupt Use of Intelligence, Clarity Press, Atlanta 2013, pp 366.) Edward Snowden’s revelations have given the public insights into a world that leads a shadowy existence. […]
Review by Edward S. Herman (Maximilian Forte – Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and AfricaBaraka. Books: Montreal CA 2012, 341 pp.) Maximilian Forte’s book on the Libyan war, Slouching Towards Sirte, is another […]
By Susannah Tarbush Israel’s massive 23-day Operation Cast Lead offensive on Gaza, which began on 27 December 2008, caused massive destruction and killed more than 1,400 people. Another 5,000 were injured. Just World Books of […]
By Jim Miles (Why Israel? The Anatomy of Zionist Apartheid – A South African Perspective. Suraya Dadoo and Firoz Osman. Porcupine Press, Melville, South Africa. 2013.) Why Israel? is a large work of enormous value […]
By Georgina Reeves (Unfree in Palestine: Registration, Documentation and Movement Restriction – Nadia Abu-Zahra Adah Kay, Pluto Press, 2013.) The opening lines of Mahmoud Darwish’s poem Bitaqat Hawiyyah (identity card) are a poignant reminder of […]
By Jim Miles (Goliath – Life and loathing in Greater Israel. Max Blumenthal, Nation Books, 2013) This is a powerfully written book, a mixture of current events, historical data, and personal anecdotal comments and stories. […]
By Vacy Vlazna Susie Abulhawa, Palestinian poet, exile, mother, lover, friend, stands naked in My Voice Sought The Wind; her collection of trenchant and beautiful poems replete with honesties and literary seductions. Reading her poems […]
(Generation Palestine – Voices from the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions movement. Ed. Rich Wiles. Pluto Press, 2013.) Reviewed by Jim Miles Generation Palestine is a timely and enlightening work. For all the reading available on […]
Reviewed by Jamal Kanj (Fast Times in Palestine. Pamela Olson. Seal Press, March 2013) Whenever I read a biographical book, I make it a point to start with the acknowledgement page to learn a little […]
Reviewed by Hatim Kanaaneh (Beyond Tribal Loyalties –Personal Stories of Jewish Peace Activities. Avigail Abarbanel, Editor; Cambridge Scholars Publishing; 2012.) Of late, the atmosphere in The Middle East has been murky; indeed murkier than usual. […]
By Vacy Vlazna Jewish American, Michelle Cohen Corasanti’s The Almond Tree should be retitled, The Normal Tree, because, as Shahada, the tree is witness, since 1947, to the normal daily atrocities by the Israeli occupiers […]
Reviewed by Ludwig Watzal (Moshe Machover, Israelis and Palestinians: conflict and resolution, Haymarket Books, Chicago 2012, pp327) This anthology of essays, written by a former Israel activist between 1962 to today, shows the work of […]
By Ludwig Watzal The books “The Globalization of NATO” and “Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya” deal with the expansion of a military alliance that was supposed to be solely defensive in character […]
By Susan Abulhawa Writing a novel that depicts an oppressed society when you are not a member of that society is a risky undertaking in my estimation. When it comes to the Palestinian narrative, the […]
Reviewed by Hala Nassar (Raja Shehadeh: Occupation Diaries. Profile Books Ltd, London 2012. Pages 208, Illustrations.) When Raja Shehadeh writes about Palestine, he makes sure that we walk with him the valleys, the mountains and […]
By Deepak Tripathi During the research for my latest book Imperial Designs: War, Humiliation and the Making of History (Potomac Books – the University of Nebraska Press, 2013) I came across something the Czech writer […]
By Pamela Olson (The following is part of an outtake from Pamela Olson’s book Fast Times in Palestine, published by Seal Press in March 2013. The full story, with photos is posted on her blog.) […]
Reviewed by Ludwig Watzal (Francis A. Boyle, Destroying Libya and World Order, Clarity Press, Atlanta 2013, 212 pp.) This book tells the story of what happened, why it happened and what went wrong between the […]
Reviewed by Ludwig Watzal (Zionism – The Real Enemy of the Jews, by Alan Hart, Clarity Press, Atlanta 2009-2010, Vol. I-III) Alan Hart’s trilogy on the devastating impact of Zionism not only on the Palestinian […]
Reviewed by Ludwig Watzal (Generation Palestine. Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, edited by Rich Wiles, Pluto, London 2013, 242 pp. L 14.99.) “Generation Palestine” is about the Palestinian BDS campaign that tries […]
(This week writer Iain Banks announced he has cancer and may have just months to live. Here he explains why, in 2010, he decided his novels would no longer be published in Israel.) By Iain […]
By June Rugh I highly recommend the new collection of essays, Generation Palestine: Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, ed. Rich Wiles, Pluto Press, London, 2013. With an impressive range of contributors–Palestinian author […]
By Sahar Mansour Times change, situations change, people change. This is how the world has always been, and this can definitely be said about these turbulent first decades of this 21st century. For this reason, […]
By Richard Falk (The Prisoners’ Diaries: Palestinian Voices from the Israeli Gulag, edited by Norma Hashim, in close collaboration with the Centre for Political & Development Studies, Gaza, 2013) There are many moving passages that […]
By Ludwig Watzal (Unfree in Palestine. Registration, Documentation and Movement Restriction by Nadia Abu-Zahra and Adah Kay, Pluto Press, London 2013, pp. 232, L 17.99.) The latest visit by U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama to […]
(For the trajectory of the Palestinian struggle, Abulhawa searches for lessons from the past, neo-liberal thought, and Black Consciousness) By Susan Abulhawa It’s safe to say that a book you can’t put down is a […]
By Lewis Turner Shlomo Sand shot to prominence and controversy with his 2008 book The Invention of the Jewish People. His follow-up, The Invention of the Land of Israel, examines a nationalist mythology of land […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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