In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home
By: Mona Hajjar Halaby
4.31
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Refugees are like seeds that scatter in the wind, and land in different soils that become their re…
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1. Wild Thorns
By: Sahar Khalifeh , Trevor Le Gassick , Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A young Palestinian named Usama returns from working in the Gulf to support the resistance movement… read more
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- historical
"هذا الجيل قوي ، متوقد ، صلب كالصوان، رغم قده الممشوق كعود الخيزران. وتذكرها. كتبها، وسبابتها المرفوعة بالغبار، وقامتها النحيلة الضامرة. قالت : - الأقوياء لا يطأطئون."-Sahar Khalifeh, Wild Thorns
" لماذا توجعنا الأغاني الحزينة ؟ ألأننا شعب رومانسي؟ ولم يكن هو رومانسياً. لم يعد كذلك. أو هكذا بات يعتقد. كيف توصل إلى هذي النتيجة؟ تدريب. طلقات. زحف على البطون. شدّ البطون. ويصبح الإنسان لارومانسي الف…"-Sahar Khalifeh, Wild Thorns
2. Mornings in Jenin
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that could do for Palestine what The Kite Runner did fo… read more
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- historical
3. Salt Houses
By: Hala Alyan
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. … read more
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4. The Blue Between Sky and Water
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.15
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of Mornings in Jenin, a novel about four generations of… read more
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5. Gaza Writes Back (#1)
By: Refaat Alareer
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
"Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine", edited by Refaat Alareer i… read more
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7. Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire
By: Jehad Abusalim
4.70
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a p… read more
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- history
- memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
8. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- memoir
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- contemporary
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
9. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- contemporary
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
10. Rifqa
By: Mohammed El-Kurd
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more
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- history
- memoir
- historical
- nonfiction
- social justice
- contemporary
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa
11. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
12. The Beauty of Your Face
By: Sahar Mustafah
4.19
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face wit… read more
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- contemporary
"You do not laugh at someone who is trying; only at fools who do not give themselves a chance."-Sahar Mustafah, The Beauty of Your Face
13. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories
By: Ilan Pappé
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940s,… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- social justice
- audiobook
14. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
By: Ahed Tamimi
4.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more
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- biography
- history
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
15. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
16. Against the Loveless World
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radical… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- contemporary
"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
17. When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History
By: Massoud Hayoun
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The stunning debut of a brilliant nonfiction writer whose vivid account of his grandparents’ lives … read more
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- history
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
18. In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home
By: Mona Hajjar Halaby
4.31
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Refugees are like seeds that scatter in the wind, and land in different soils that become their re… read more
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- history
- memoir
- asia
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- contemporary
- audiobook
19. Mother Country
By: Etaf Rum
4.19
Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition
A young Palestinian American woman comes to terms with the lessons imparted by her mother in an evo… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
20. Hidden Fires
By: Sairish Hussain
4.31
Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition
How can you live in the present when you’re trying to bury the past?‘A multi-generational family st… read more
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- contemporary
21. Playing for Freedom: The Journey of a Young Afghan Girl
By: Zarifa Adiba
4.27
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
A passionate musician growing up in the war-torn streets of Kabul takes her forbidden talents abroa… read more
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