18 Top history books like Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel by Azad Essa

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Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel

By: Azad Essa

4.54

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

'A valuable study, with rich insights' - Noam Chomsky 'Extraordinary' - Ilan Pappe ‘Formidab…

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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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2. The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

By: Howard Zinn , Vijay Prashad

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A landmark study that offers an alternative history of the Cold War from the point of view of the w… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • india
  • nonfiction
"[W]ho would have thought that by the mid-twentieth century the darker nations would gather in Cuba, once the playground of the plutocracy, to celebrate their will to struggle and their will to win? W…"

-Howard Zinn, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

"Among the darker nations, Paris is famous for two betrayals. The first came in 1801, when Napoleon Bonaparte sent General Victor Leclerc to crush the Haitian Revolution, itself inspired by the French…"

-Howard Zinn, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

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3. Orientalism

By: None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."

-None, Orientalism

"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."

-None, Orientalism

"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."

-None, Orientalism

"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."

-None, Orientalism

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4. Kashmir: A Case of Freedom

By: Tariq Ali

4.39

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

At home, the Kashmiri people's ongoing quest for justice and self-determination is as much ignored … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • india
  • nonfiction

5. The Question of Palestine

By: None

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Still a basic and indespensible account of the Palestinian question, updated to include the most re… read more

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6. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

By: Naomi Klein

4.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more

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7. 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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8. Capitalism: A Ghost Story

By: Arundhati Roy

3.00

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farm… read more

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9. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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10. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"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

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11. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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  • politics
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12. 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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  • war
"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

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13. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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14. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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15. Azadi

By: Arundhati Roy

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and the Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and … read more

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  • india
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"...as the Covid-19 pandemic burns through us, our world is passing through a portal. We have journeyed to a place from which it looks unlikely that we can return, at least not without some kind of se…"

-Arundhati Roy, Azadi

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16. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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17. A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto

By: China Miéville

3.95

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Like the authors of the Manifesto, I don’t believe that the generalised mass misery of the world, all the unbearable checklists of deprivation and depravity, is irrelevant, nor unrelated to the econo…"

-China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto

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18. Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

By: Farah Bashir

4.10

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Rumours of Spring is the unforgettable account of Farah Bashir's adolescence spent in Srinagar in t… read more

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  • india
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"The house I would go back to would be bereft of her presence but filled with her memories. Our home, the little monument of memory."

-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

"I thought maybe if I looked ugly and less pleasant, the men would not look at me and I'd be safe. I wouldn't wash my face for days. I didn't want to look attractive in any way, at all, lest it invite…"

-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

"...the constant shifting of power had done its damage. I didn't know then, but it was the beginning of an apathy for my own self that would last for a long time. Our lives were controlled from elsewh…"

-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

"Why are people okay with not walking? Does Father not miss his daily walks to the shrine and his shop? What about Mother and her long walk to her parents' home? Does Bobeh not get bored now that she …"

-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

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19. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

By: Mariame Kaba

4.67

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"

-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

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20. The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.66

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling authors Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey have teamed up to deliver a dark new story wi… read more

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"Julie felt its hunger ripple eover her, listened: It was waiting for the city to die. It would wait forever. It did not need this to come to pass now. It was used to waiting. It knew, in the way of g…"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

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21. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

By: Kelly Hayes

4.64

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. 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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  • war
"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

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23. Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

By: Julia Shaw

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decade… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Rather than being 'this not that' I am this *and* that... I've felt like a blossoming flower. As I become more fully me and as I'm more comfortable with each petal of my identity, I open myself up an…"

-Julia Shaw, Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

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24. Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War

By: Tony Wood

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

How the West's obsession with Vladimir Putin prevents it from understanding Russia.It is impossible… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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25. The New BJP: Modi and the Making of the World’s Largest Political Party

By: Nalin Mehta

4.24

Format: 840 pages, Hardcover

In election after election since 2014, both at the Union and state levels, the BJP has won more oft… read more

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  • india
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. Arab Marxism and National Liberation: Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel (Historical Materialism, #223)

By: Mahdi Amel

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Mahdi Amel (1936–87) was a prominent Arab Marxist thinker and Lebanese Communist Party member. This… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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27. Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel

By: Azad Essa

4.54

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

'A valuable study, with rich insights' - Noam Chomsky 'Extraordinary' - Ilan Pappe ‘Formidab… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • india
  • nonfiction
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28. Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian Occupation (South Asia in Motion)

By: Hafsa Kanjwal

4.81

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

The Indian government, touted as the world's largest democracy, often repeats that Jammu and Kashmi… read more

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  • india
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Understanding Hamas And Why That Matters by Rami G. Khouri

29. Understanding Hamas And Why That Matters

By: Rami G. Khouri

1.75

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Across Western mainstream discourse, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has been subjected t… read more

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30. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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31. They Will Beat the Memory Out of Us: Forcing Nonviolence on Forgetful Movements

By: Peter Gelderloos

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In the face of ecological crisis, police repression and white supremacy, there is an apparent lack … read more

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  • politics

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