Pen and Notebook – A Short Story
(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 into a run, […]
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The Voice of Palestine’s Second Occupation, Part 2 – Book Review
(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 by perhaps the most […]
Sahar Khalifeh: The Lost Gospel of Palestinian Letters – Book Review
(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: Ghassan Kanafani, Mahmoud Darwish, […]
Obama’s Unending Wars: Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State – Book Review
(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, George Bush and […]
The Voice of Palestine’s Second Occupation, Part 1 – Book Review
(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 occupation of Palestine qualifies […]
America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy Making From Bush to Obama to Trump – Book Review
(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 overview of U.S. […]
Preventing Palestine: A Political History From Camp David to Oslo – Book Review
(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 out as being […]
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
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 fictional African island nation […]
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
(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 as a degenerate […]
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History – Book Review
(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 by the David […]
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
(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 harvest all the […]
The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World – Book Review
(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 a journey into […]
War on Peace – Book Review
(War on Peace – The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Power. Ronan Farrow. W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., New York, 2018.) Members of the political corps of the U.S. writing about […]
Ramzy Baroud: Reclaiming the Palestinian Narrative (VIDEO)
Ramzy Baroud: There is an absolute and urgent need for the Palestinian people to champion their own story, and to define the nature of solidarity. Without the Palestinian people being the central component of the […]
Bibi, The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu – Book Review
(Bibi – The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu. Anshell Pfeffer. Signal/McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Random House, Toronto, 2018.) This morning I read online the current problems Benjamin Netanyahu is having within the Knesset […]
Twilight of the American Century – Book Review
(Twilight of the American Century. Andrew J. Bacevich. University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2018.) The histories of empires and the histories of war are generally written by the winner to put themselves […]
Palestine Chronicle World Tour: Hawai’i, London, Istanbul, Turin
Dear Palestine Chronicle Readers, My name is Ramzy Baroud and I am the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle. I am embarking on the second leg of my world tour that is set to take me […]
Rachel Corrie Foundation to Host Evening with Dr. Mads Gilbert in Seattle (VIDEO)
The Rachel Corrie Foundation (RCF) will welcome Norwegian physician, humanitarian, and activist Dr. Mads Gilbert to the Pacific Northwest for a fundraising lecture benefiting RCF Gaza Projects on Thursday, October 25, 2018, at the Ballard […]
Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories – Book Review
(The Biggest Prison on Earth – A History of the Occupied Territories. Ilan Pappe. Oneworld Publications, London, 2018) The history of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine is continued with Ilan Pappe’s recent work, The Biggest […]
Ramzy Baroud’s ‘The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story’
(Ramzy Baroud. The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story. London: Pluto Press, 2018. Order it now) The Last Earth is a masterful weaving of personal stories into the full tapestry of a people, of individuals, torn from […]
Reclaiming Our Narrative: Why You MUST Obtain This Book (VIDEO)
Dear Friends & Readers, The success of my recently-published book: THE LAST EARTH: A PALESTINIAN STORY is heart-warming in many ways. Aside from the feeling of relief that years of research, writing and rewriting are […]
Dystopian Palestinian Novel Wins 2018 Arabic Book Prize
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Palestinian-Jordanian novelist Ibrahim Nasrallah won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) with a novel about humanity’s capacity for savagery. “The Second War of the Dog” was announced as the winner […]
A Brilliant Early Defender of Palestine – Book Review
Reviewed by Jeremy Salt (Colin Andersen, Balfour in the Dock. J.M.N. Jeffries and the Case for the Prosecution. Bloxham, Oxon: Skyscraper Publications, 2017) J.M.N (Joseph) Jeffries was an outstanding British journalist whose book Palestine: The Reality […]
MEMO Hosts Launch of The Last Earth by Ramzy Baroud (PHOTOS & VIDEO)
By Rebecca Stead On Tuesday, March 27, Middle East Monitor (MEMO) hosted Ramzy Baroud as he launched his new book The Last Earth in front of a packed lecture theater at Imperial College, London. Chaired […]
Feelings Out of the Law – Book Review
Reviewed by Wasan Abu Baker Dr. Rola Ghanem is a Palestinian contemporary novelist, from the city of Tulkarem. Her short story, Feelings Out of the Law, is a beautiful piece that creatively covers a significance […]
‘We Are Fighting a Cultural War with Israel’: Ramzy Baroud Interviewed by George Galloway
Palestine Chronicle Editor, Ramzy Baroud appeared on RT’s Sputnik with George Galloway. Click here to watch. Galloway said: “If the Palestinians had a royal family, our guest this week would be a member of it. […]