A Palestine Resource Guide

General History

John K. Cooley, Green March, Black September: The Story of the Palestinian Arabs (Routledge, 1973, 2015).

Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestinian Question, Israel’s Policy Toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip: A Site of Continual Displacement.

Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Metropolitan Books, 2020).

Ilan Pappé, A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Bernard Regan, The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine (Verso Books, 2017).

Rosemary Sayigh, The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries (Zed Books, 1979).

Palestinian Resistance

Nasreen Abd Elal, “100 Years of Palestinian Popular Resistance,” The Nation, May 15, 2023.

Nahla Abdo, “Women, War, and Peace: Reflections from the Intifada,” Women’s Studies International Forum, September 2002.

Ali Abunimah, The Battle for Justice in Palestine (Haymarket Books, 2014).

Louis Allday, “The Palestinians’ Inalienable Right to Resist,” Ebb, June 6, 2021.

Omar Barghouti. BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (Haymarket Books, 2011).

Nora Barrows-Friedman, In Our Power: U.S. Students Organize for Justice in Palestine (Just World Books, 2014).

Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (Haymarket Books, 2016).

Mohammed el-Kurd, Abu Sharawib, and Devyn Springer, “The Palestinian Resistance & Sheikh Jarrah,” Groundings Podcast, May 17, 2021.

Rayya El Zein, “Developing a Palestinian Resistance Economy Through Agricultural Labor,” Journal of Palestine Studies, Spring 2017.

Khaled Hroub, “A ‘New Hamas’ Through Its New Documents,” Journal of Palestine Studies, Summer 2006.

Institute for Palestine Studies, “Interview With Ahmad Saadat: Leading From Prison, Ending Negotiations, and Rebuilding the Resistance,” Journal of Palestine Studies, Summer 2014.

David Miller, “Dismantling Zionism: How ‘Israel’ Lobby Contributes to Oppression of Palestinians,” Al Mayadeen, June 23, 2023.

Palestinian Youth Movement, “Freedom or Martyrdom: Walid Daqqah’s Fate Is in Our Hands,” Mondoweiss, June 23, 2023.

Palestinian Youth Movement, “Palestinian History Doesn’t Start With the Nakba,” Mondoweiss, May 14, 2023. 

Palestinian Youth Movement, “Zionism in Crisis: Palestinian Resistance Forges a New Horizon,” Mondoweiss, April 16, 2023.

Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment (Pluto Press, 2010).

Yezid Sayigh, Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949–1993 (Oxford University Press, 1997).

Lara Sheehi, “No Choice but to Break Free: An Interview With Ahmed Abu Artema,” Viewpoint Magazine, March 30, 2019.

Mary Turfah, “Resistance and Revolutionary Will: Soha Bechara and Nawal Baidoun’s Testimonies of Khiam Prison,” Liberated Texts, March 20, 2023.

Nakba

Nahla Abdo and Nur Masalha, eds, An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba (Zed Books, 2018).

Nur Masalha, The Palestine Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory (Zed Books, 2012).

Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld, 2006).

Memoirs

Salman Abu Sitta, Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir (American University in Cairo Press, 2016).

Soha Bechara, “Committed to Liberation: Remembering Soha Bechara’s Clandestine Mission,” introduction by Sintia Issa, The Public Source, May 25, 2021.

Shafiq al-Hout, My Life in the PLO: The Inside Story of the Palestinian Struggle (Pluto Press, 2010).

Leila Khaled, My People Shall Live: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary, ed. George Hajjar (Hodder & Stoughton, 1973).

Wisam Rafeedie, The Trinity of Fundamentals, trans. Palestinian Youth Movement’s Popular University Committee (1804 Books, 2023).

Najla Said, Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family. (Penguin, 2013).

Gender

Nahla Abdo, Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women’s Anti-colonial Struggle Within the Israeli Prison System (Pluto Press, 2014).

Sa’ed Atshan, Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2020).

Frances S. Hasso, Resistance, Repression, and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan (Syracuse University Press, 2005).

Fatma Kassem, Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories and Gendered Memory (Zed Books, 2011).

Julie Peteet, Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement (Columbia University Press, 1991).

Simona Sharoni, Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women’s Resistance (Syracuse University Press, 1995).

Also of Interest

Norman G. Finkelstein, Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History (University of California Press, 2005).

Jeremy R. Hammond, Obstacle to Peace: The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Worldview Publications, 2016).

Shir Hever, The Political Economy of Israel’s Occupation: Repression Beyond Exploitation (Pluto Press, 2010).

Remi Kanazi, Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up From Brooklyn to Palestine (Haymarket Books, 2015).

Zachary Lockman, Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906–1948 (University of California Press, 1996).

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Macmillan, 2007).

Salim Tamari, Mountain Against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture (University of California Press, 2008).

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Features and Short Films

3000 Nights (2015), dir. Mai Masri.

A Borrowed Identity (2014), dir. Eran Riklis.

Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996), dir. Elia Suleiman.

Farha (2021), dir. Darin J. Sallam.

Gaza Mon Amour (2020), dir. Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser.

Lemon Tree (2008), dir. Eran Riklis.

Naila and the Uprising (2017), dir. Julia Bacha.

Omar (2013), dir. Hany Abu-Assad.

The Present (2020), dir. Farah Nabulsi.

The Time That Remains (2009), dir. Elia Suleiman.

Wedding in Galilee (1987), dir. Michel Khleifi.

When I Saw You (2012), dir. Annemarie Jacir.

Documentaries

1948: Creation & Catastrophe (2017), dir. Andy Trimlett and Ahlam Muhtaseb.

Born in Gaza (2014), dir. Hernán Zin.

Breaking the Silence video testimonies.

Budrus (2009), dir. Julia Bacha.

Disturbing the Peace (2016), dir. Stephen Apkon and Andrew Young.

Dreams Deferred: The Struggle for Peace and Justice in Israel and Palestine (2011), dir. Jennifer Hitchcock.

Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight (2020), dir. Collectif Vacarmes Films.

Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace (2005), dir. Daniel Edge and Mark Anderson.

Jenin, Jenin (2002), dir. Mohammad Bakri.

Leila Khaled: Hijacker (2006), dir. Lina Makboul.

Naji al-Ali: An Artist With Vision (1999), dir. Kasim Abid.

Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory (2015), dir. Mohanad Yaqubi.

PLO: History of a Revolution (2009), six-part documentary series from Al Jazeera.

The Settlers (2016), dir. Shimon Dotan.

Slingshot Hip Hop (2008), dir. Jacqueline Reem Salloum.

This Is My Land (2014), dir. Tamara Erde.

A Trip Along Exodus (2015), dir. Hind Shoufani.

Unsettled (2007), dir. Adam Hootnik.

Tantura (2022), dir. Alon Schwarz.

Tell Your Tale, Little Bird (2007), dir. Arab Loutfi.

They Do Not Exist (1974), dir. Mustafa Abu Ali.