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Culture and Customs of the Palestinians
- Title: Culture and Customs of the Palestinians
- Author(s) / Editor(s): Samih K. Farsoun (Author)
- Publisher: Greenwood
- Year: 2004
- ISBN-10: 0313320519
- ISBN-13: 978-0313320514
- Language: English
- Pages: 192
- Size / Format: 1,4 mb / pdf
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Description: The Palestinians have been at the center of Middle Eastern and world history for nearly a century. The core issues of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are still the ones that emerged in 1948, after what Palestinians term al-Nakba, the destruction of historical Palestine and the dispossession and expulsion of its people. At the center of this vortex of politics, diplomacy, oppression, resistance, and struggle are the Palestinians. The Palestinians are an ancient Arab people, with both Islamic and Christian adherents, and their traditional culture and present way of life under difficult conditions are greatly illuminated for students and general readers.
A clear historical overview of Palestine, the diaspora, and the conflict is provided, and the history colors the rest of the narrative, addressing crucial aspects of Palestinian society. Palestinians struggle to retain their traditions. Their modern social structure, values, social customs, and life, including education, in villages, refugee camps, and cities are covered. The importance of extended family and women’s roles in a continuing patriarchy are also addressed. The famed Palestinian embroidery and typical food dishes are celebrated. Chapters on modern literature and the arts and cinema stress the artistic focus on the conflict with Israel. A helpful timeline, copious bibliography, and glossary round out the coverage.
Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
- Title: Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
- Author(s) / Editor(s): Sara Roy (Author)
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Year: 2006
- ISBN-10: 0745322344
- ISBN-13: 978-0745322346
- Language: English
- Pages: 408
- Size / Format: 3,8 mb / pdf
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Description: This book is the culmination of 20 years of research, fieldwork and analysis on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the impact of Israeli occupation. Discussion of Israeli policy toward Palestinians is often regarded as a taboo subject, with the result that few people — especially in the U.S. — understand the origins and consequences of the conflict. Roy’s book provides an indispensable context for understanding why the situation remains so intractable. The focus of Roy’s work is the Gaza Strip, an area that remains consistently neglected and misunderstood despite its political centrality. Drawing on more than two thousand interviews and extensive first-hand experience, Roy chronicles the impact of Israeli occupation in Palestine over nearly a generation. Exploring the devastating consequences of socio-economic and political decline, this is a unique and powerful account of the reality of life in the West Bank and Gaza. Written by one of the world’s foremost scholars of the region, it offers an unrivalled breadth of scholarship and insight.
More Bad News from Israel
- Title: More Bad News from Israel
- Author(s) / Editor(s): Greg Philo (Author), Mike Berry (Author)
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Year: 2011
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 0745329780
- ISBN-13: 978-0745329789
- Language: English
- Pages: 486
- Size / Format: 6,9 mb / pdf
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Description: Building on rigorous research by the world-renowned Glasgow University Media Group, More Bad News From Israel examines media coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has on public opinion. The book brings together senior journalists and ordinary viewers to examine how audiences understand the news and how their views are shaped by media reporting. In the largest study ever undertaken in this area, the authors focus on television news. They illustrate major differences in the way Israelis and Palestinians are represented, including how casualties are shown and the presentation of the motives and rationales of both sides. They combine this with extensive audience research involving hundreds of participants from the USA, Britain and Germany. It shows extraordinary differences in levels of knowledge and understanding, especially amongst young people from these countries. Covering recent developments, including the Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza, this authoritative and up-to-date study will be an invaluable tool for journalists, activists and students and researchers of media studies.
My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story
- Title: My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story
- Author(s) / Editor(s): Ramzy Baroud (Author)
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Year: 2010
- ISBN-10: 0745328822
- ISBN-13: 978-0745328829
- Language: English
- Pages: 227
- Size / Format: 2,9 mb / pdf
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Description: The frontline in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, Gaza is constantly reported as a place of violence and terror. Ramzy Baroud’s memoir explores the daily lives of the people in that turbulent region: the complex human beings — revolutionaries, mothers and fathers, lovers, and comedians — who make Gaza so much more than just a disputed territory. At the heart of Baroud’s tale is the story of his father who, driven out of his village to a refugee camp, took up arms to fight the occupation while trying to raise a family.
“Ramzy Baroud’s sensitive, thoughtful, searching writing penetrates to the core of moral dilemmas that their intended audiences evade at their peril. Few are spared his perceptive eye, and only the morally callous will fail to respond to his pleas to look into the mirror honestly, to question comforting beliefs that protect us from facing our elementary responsibilities, and to act to remedy the terrible misery and injustice that he exposes to our view, as we surely can.” — Noam Chomsky
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