Books like 'The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories'
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Palestine by Hubert Haddad
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomewhere in the West Bank, an Israeli patrol is assaulted by a Palestinian commando. One Israeli soldier is killed and another is kidnapped. Wounded, in a state of shock, the hostage loses hold of reality and forgets everything, even his own name. Eventually he is rescued, taken in by two Palestinian women and his wounds heal... -
![Nutuk - The Great Speech by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]()
Nutuk - The Great Speech by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNutuk was a speech delivered by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from 15 to 20 October 1927, at the second congress of Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi... -
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Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani’s Palestinian Resistance Literature...Categorized as:
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![Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself by Tim Kennedy, Nick Palmisciano]()
Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself by Tim Kennedy, Nick Palmisciano
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom decorated Green Beret sniper, UFC headliner, and all around badass, Tim Kennedy, a rollicking, inspirational memoir offering lessons in how to embrace failure and weather storms, in order to unlock the strongest version of yourself.Tim Kennedy has a problem; he only feels alive right before he’s about to die... -
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![War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony by Nelson A. Denis]()
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony by Nelson A. Denis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill President Harry Truman, gunfights roared in eight towns, police stations and post offices were burned down...Categorized as:
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![Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War by Robert Fisk]()
Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War by Robert Fisk
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAccount of war in the late-20th century both as historical document and as an eyewitness testament to human savagery. Written by one of Britain's foremost journalists, this book combines political analysis and war reporting: it is an epic account of the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally witnessed the carnage of Beirut for over a decade... -
![Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman G. Finkelstein]()
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman G. Finkelstein
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating “operations” against Gaza’s largely defenseless population. Thousands have perished, and tens of thousands have been left homeless... -
![The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi by Kevin Lacz, Ethan E. Rocke]()
The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi by Kevin Lacz, Ethan E. Rocke
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“One of the very best books to come out of the war in Iraq,” (Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, bestselling author of On Killing ), The Last Punisher is a gripping and intimate on-the-ground memoir from a Navy SEAL who was part of SEAL Team THREE with American Sniper Chris Kyle... -
![Like Dreamers: The Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, and the Divided Israel They Created by Yossi Klein Halevi]()
Like Dreamers: The Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, and the Divided Israel They Created by Yossi Klein Halevi
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLike Dreamers by Yossi K. Halevi has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher... -
![Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B. Oates]()
Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B. Oates
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWinner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book AwardWinner of the Christopher AwardA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearBy the acclaimed biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Nat Turner, and John Brown, Stephen B. Oates's prizewinning Let the Trumpet Sound is the definitive one-volume life of Martin Luther King, Jr...Categorized as:
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![The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Khalidi]()
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Khalidi
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family historyIn 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not...Categorized as:
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![Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé]()
Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe myths and reality behind the state of Israel and Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” ( New Statesman )In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of... -
![Zionist Colonialism in Palestine by Fayez Sayegh]()
Zionist Colonialism in Palestine by Fayez Sayegh
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZionist Colonialism in Palestine traces the historical roots of the Zionist movement and the uprooting of the ancient Palestinian Arab people from their ancestral homeland...Categorized as:
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![Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Peter Beinart]()
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Peter Beinart
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA bold, urgent appeal from the acclaimed columnist and political commentator, addressing one of the most important issues of our timeIn Peter Beinart’s view, one story has long dominated Jewish communal that of persecution and victimhood. It is a story that erases much of the nuance of sacred Jewish tradition and history, and also warps our understanding of modern history... -
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![Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson]()
Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIndigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into practice. Relationships don’t just shape Indigenous reality, they are our reality... -
![Falastin: A Cookbook by Sami Tamimi, Tara Wigley]()
Falastin: A Cookbook by Sami Tamimi, Tara Wigley
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA soulful tour of Palestinian cooking today from the Ottolenghi restaurants' executive chef and partner--120 recipes shaped by his personal story as well as the history of Palestine.The story of Palestine's food is really the story of its people... -
![The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein]()
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow Israel makes a killing from the occupation of PalestineIsrael’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies...Categorized as:
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![Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen by Yasmin Khan]()
Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen by Yasmin Khan
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYasmin Khan unlocks the flavors and fragrances of modern Palestine, from the sun-kissed pomegranate stalls of Akka, on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, through evergreen oases of date plantations in the Jordan Valley, to the fading fish markets of Gaza City... -
![The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin]()
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom a Pulitzer Prize winner, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump's border wall.Ever since this nation's inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity... -
![The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens]()
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Sets a new standard for Western Indian Wars history... -
![Palestine on a Plate: Memories from My Mother's Kitchen by Ria Osborne, Joudie Kalla]()
Palestine on a Plate: Memories from My Mother's Kitchen by Ria Osborne, Joudie Kalla
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPalestinian food is not just found on the streets with the ka'ak (sesame) bread sellers and stalls selling za'atar chicken and mana'eesh (za'atar and sesame bread), but in the home too; in the kitchens all across the country, where families cook and eat together every day, in a way that generations before them have always done... -
![La conquista de México by Hugh Thomas]()
La conquista de México by Hugh Thomas
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne of the great historical works of our times, Hugh Thomas’s account of the collapse of Montezuma’s great Aztec empire under the onslaught of Cortés’s conquistadors is a thrilling and sweeping narrative, bristling with moral and political issues... -
![Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Robin Yassin-Kassab, Leila Al-Shami]()
Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Robin Yassin-Kassab, Leila Al-Shami
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Explores how Syria’s peaceful uprising gave way to armed insurgency and sectarian jihad...a sympathetic portrait of a heroic uprising gone wrong, describing in all too painful detail the transformations wrought by armed groups and Assad’s brutality. This is an important, honest, and insightful book, well worth anyone’s time...Categorized as:
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![Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World by Joby Warrick]()
Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World by Joby Warrick
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Black Flags comes the thrilling unknown story of America’s mission in to find and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons and keep them out of the hands of the Islamic State In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war... -
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![True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change by Jody Wilson-Raybould]()
True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change by Jody Wilson-Raybould
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet , a groundbreaking and accessible roadmap to advancing true reconciliation across Canada...Categorized as:
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![The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam by Martin Windrow]()
The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam by Martin Windrow
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn December 1953 the French army occupying Vietnam challenged the elusive Vietnamese army to engage in a decisive battle. When French paratroopers landed in the jungle on the border between Vietnam and Laos, the Vietnamese quickly isolated the French force and confronted them at their jungle base in a small place called Dien Bien Phu... -
![The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal by William J. Burns]()
The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal by William J. Burns
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom America's "secret diplomatic weapon" (The Atlantic), comes a memoir of service for five Presidents and ten Secretaries of State, an impassioned argument for renewing diplomacy as the tool of first resort in American statecraft.Ambassador William J. Burns is the most distinguished and admired American diplomat of his generation... -
![Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick]()
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from a New York Times bestselling author and an expert on U.S...Categorized as:
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![The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resistance by Plestia Alaqad]()
The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resistance by Plestia Alaqad
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn early October 2023, Palestinian Plestia Alaqad was a recent university graduate dreaming of a career as a journalist. But by the end of November, her homeland was unrecognizable—and she was broadcasting videos of violence and destruction to millions online, known across the world as “The Eyes of Gaza...Categorized as:
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![And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East by Richard Engel]()
And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East by Richard Engel
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBased on two decades of reporting, NBC’s chief foreign correspondent’s riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen up-close—sometimes dangerously so.When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter...
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