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Front cover of Jimmy Carter's book: Palestine - Peace Not Apartheid
Last paragraphs in book: "The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of the majority of its own citizens - and honour its own previous commitments - by accepting legal borders. All Arab neighbours must pledge to honour Israel's right to live in peace under these conditions. The United States is squandering international presstige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonisation of Palestinian territories. It will be a tragedy - for the Israelis, the Palestinians, and the world - if peace is rejected and a system of oppression, apartheid, and sustained violence is permitted to prevail."
#ReadPalestineWeek Day 7
So many books to read about Palestine
This is a book that will fill the reader with "what ifs"
Palestine-Peace Not Apartheid, Jimmy Carter
The last paragraphs in the book, published in 2006, are heart-breaking⤵️
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Book cover: In search of Fatima - A Palestinian Story, by Ghada Karmi
Book cover: Return - A Palestinian Memoir, by Ghada Karmi
Book cover: Married to Another Man, by Ghada Karmi
Book cover: One State - The only democratic future for Palestine-Israel, by Ghada Karmi
#ReadPalestineWeek Day 6
Four by Ghada Karmi
My favourite & most moving is In Search of Fatima
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A copy of Refaat Alareer’s poetry and prose collection “If I Must Die.” A white silhouette of a kite, alluding to his poem of the same name, flies above the title over a dark and red cloudy sky
For #readpalestineweek, im returning here again. It took me so long to find a copy of this but I’m glad I have one. May your memory be eternal, Refaat Alareer.
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Front cover of book: Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation
#ReadPalestineWeek Day 5
Visualising Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation, edited by Jessica Anderson, Aline Batarseh, Yosra El
via Visualizing Palestine [https://visualizingpalestine.org/]
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“No One Knows Their Blood Type” by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, trans. by Hazem Jamjoum, published by the CSU Poetry Center, is the winner of the 2025 Palestine Book Award in Translation 💫
Just in time for #readpalestineweek 🇵🇸
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a whole bunch of free ebooks for #ReadPalestineWeek #booksky 💙📚
fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children's books.
they're free! pdf and epub available
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Front cover of Karl Sabbagh's book: Palestine - A Personal History
Back cover of same book - summary: Palestinians feature regularly in news headlines, but their country is much less known. In this humane and deeply compelling book, Karl Sabbagh traces Palestine and Palestinians from their roots in the mélange of tribes, ethnic groups, and religions that have populated the region for centuries, and describes how, as a result of the interplay of global power politics, the majority of Palestinians were expelled from their home to make way for the new Jewish state of Israel. Palestine: A Personal History offers a sympathetic portrait of the country's rich heritage as well as evidence of the long-standing harmony between Arabs (Muslim and Christian) and the small indigenous Jewish population in Palestine. Karl Sabbagh has written both a transporting narrative and a meditation on a region that remains a flashpoint of conflict--a story of how past choices and actions reverberate in the present day.
#ReadPalestineWeek Day 4
Palestine: A personal history, Karl Sabbagh
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We are in the middle of #ReadPalestineWeek, an initiative from #PublishersforPalestine which runs until this Friday 5 December 🍉
Visit publishersforpalestine.org for a full list of free eBooks written by Palestinian writers & about Palestine, and read to resist this week 🍉
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Book cover of Raja Shehadeh's book: What does Israel fear from Palestine?
![MEDIA REVIEWS
An attempt to understand Israeli actions in Gaza, and a lament that the Palestinian story is still not properly heard ... [Shehadeh's] searching analysis offers insights for readers coming new to the situation and others who wish to face it afresh - 'Book of the Day', Guardian
A slim, powerful work ... details the devastating consequences of the siege [of Gaza] - New Statesman
Measured, lawyerly but always very readable... As the book comes to a close, as if summoning a last reserve of strength, [Shehadeh] manages a message of hope. Perhaps, he writes, the utter nightmarishness of the past few months may achieve what decades of war and negotiation have failed to resolve: a lasting peace - Observer
Elegantly written ... suffused with anger without descending into bitterness - Irish Times
An exceptionally lucid account of the underlying causes of the war in Gaza ... [Shehadeh] writes with so much humanity, recounting the story with neither rancour nor despair. This book will be particularly valuable for political education. Highly recommended all round. - Morning Star
Praise for Raja Shehadeh: In his moral clarity and baring of the heart, his self-questioning and insistence on focusing on the experience of the individual within the storms of nationalist myth and hubris, Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi - New York Times
A buoy in a sea of bleakness - Rachel Kushner
Shehadeh is a great inquiring spirit with a tone that is vivid, ironic, melancholy and wise - Colm Tóibín
Palestine's greatest prose writer - Observer
Luminously clear-sighted ... By turns lyrical, witty and shrewd, Shehadeh is an excellent companion - Prospect](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6i6xef453aka7zirig6h2hql/bafkreibb6mzwohzsjkt6pdm6jggdogysf4r6ufjkxcz6ku424biwjsp3fa)
MEDIA REVIEWS An attempt to understand Israeli actions in Gaza, and a lament that the Palestinian story is still not properly heard ... [Shehadeh's] searching analysis offers insights for readers coming new to the situation and others who wish to face it afresh - 'Book of the Day', Guardian A slim, powerful work ... details the devastating consequences of the siege [of Gaza] - New Statesman Measured, lawyerly but always very readable... As the book comes to a close, as if summoning a last reserve of strength, [Shehadeh] manages a message of hope. Perhaps, he writes, the utter nightmarishness of the past few months may achieve what decades of war and negotiation have failed to resolve: a lasting peace - Observer Elegantly written ... suffused with anger without descending into bitterness - Irish Times An exceptionally lucid account of the underlying causes of the war in Gaza ... [Shehadeh] writes with so much humanity, recounting the story with neither rancour nor despair. This book will be particularly valuable for political education. Highly recommended all round. - Morning Star Praise for Raja Shehadeh: In his moral clarity and baring of the heart, his self-questioning and insistence on focusing on the experience of the individual within the storms of nationalist myth and hubris, Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi - New York Times A buoy in a sea of bleakness - Rachel Kushner Shehadeh is a great inquiring spirit with a tone that is vivid, ironic, melancholy and wise - Colm Tóibín Palestine's greatest prose writer - Observer Luminously clear-sighted ... By turns lyrical, witty and shrewd, Shehadeh is an excellent companion - Prospect
#ReadPalestineWeek Day 3
What does Israel fear from Palestine?, Raja Shehadeh
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Front cover of book: My Palestine: An Impossible Exile, by Mohammad Tarbush
Back cover of same book with reviews
#ReadPalestineWeek Day 2
My Palestine: An Impossible Exile, by Mohammad Tarbush
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Book cover of Isabella Hammad’s book: Recognising the stranger: On Palestine & narrative.
Back cover of same book with reviewers’ comments
#ReadPalestineWeek Day 1
Recognising the stranger: On Palestine & narrative, by Isabella Hammad
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Read, Resist, Rise Up: Read Palestine Week Nov 29-Dec 5
Make Reading & Learning about Palestine an act of solidarity. Nov 29-Dec 5. 2025
#ReadPalestineWeek begins today! We’ve made #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar ebook free for download
tracepress.org/products/arabi…
Please read Palestinian poems out loud, in public, & in community…& visit publishersforpalestine.org for full list of free / fund-raising books for Gaza.
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Next week is #ReadPalestineWeek here are 5 recommendations from writers & cartoonists in Gaza to add to your tbr 🇵🇸
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"...the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) Van Nuys Branch held #ReadPalestineWeek, which coincided with an international action that encourages people to read works by Palestinian and Palestinian diaspora authors, as well as nonfiction books about Palestinian culture, history and cuisine." 📚 🇵🇸
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It has been a slow reading week as life is crazy nuts - I’m still reading #thecoin by Yasmin Zaher for #readpalestineweek - how about you?
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2024 #ReadPalestineWeek is over; we encourage you to continue to read and take action to end genocide year-round.
You can find a list of books that remain free here:
publishersforpalestine.org/2024/12/06/a...
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If you liked this story, also check out yesterday's rec too:
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And my earlier rec for #ReadPalestineWeek:
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This is a story that's just over flash length, so by the time I explain what it is about, you'd have already read it :)
So very briefly, it is a story by a Palestinian author on the present Israeli invasion of Gaza & a potential future.
It's a great way to finish #ReadPalestineWeek too.
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Finished Isabella Hammad’s Recognizing the Stranger for #readpalestineweek and it was 1000/1000 loved it 😍 #booksky
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Last year I participated in #readpalestineweek but remembered this year when it was ending. I was sad because the Palestinian people & other countries suffering at the hands of others are always on my mind. And readin these stories should be done year round #poetry #fiction
https://buff.ly/3CQB6ix
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If you haven't checked Publishers for Palestine's free fiction & nonfiction ebook offerings for #readpalestineweek, this is the last day to do so!
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Last day of #ReadPalestineWeek, so today we’re celebrating our most recent Palestinian title, the brilliantly put-together BOOK OF RAMALLAH, edited by the unstoppable Maya Abu Al-Hayat. commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo...
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I pledged to buy Refaat Alareer’s book on its release date, this coming Tuesday Dec 10, to help make it a bestseller. And also because it’ll be a great book.
If you see this post, please sign the pledge or buy the book too.
#ReadPalestineWeek #Booksky
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Five books: Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani The Book of Gaza, edited by Atef Abu Seif No One Knows their Blood Type by Maya Abu al-Hayyat Minor Detail by Adania Shibli Exhausted on the Cross by Najwan Darwish
It's the last day of #ReadPalestineWeek, and here are some books on my mind
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The cover of The Sea Cloak, Indonesian version. Its cover art shows mosaic of panels, each panel has colorful illustrations that reflect the stories inside, such as seashells, flower stem, violin in its case, Gaza beach, the dome of Al Aqsa mosque behind barbed wire, three children in front of the separation wall, and refugee tents.
#ReadPalestineWeek Day 7: the Indonesian translation of The Sea Cloak by Nayrouz Qarmout, a journalist and women's rights activist. Short stories inspired by her experiences growing up as a refugee, her characters are ordinary people that reflect cultural tapestry.
Translated by Sasti Gotama.
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Book cover: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappe Cover in colourised black & white photograph of row of women & bare foot children carrying babies in arms, sacs on their heads walking along a dusty road. An old man walks at the back of the group
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappe
"vivid and timely account demonstrates conclusively that 'transfer' - a euphemism for ethnic cleansing - was from the start an integral part of a carefully planned strategy, and les at the root of today's ongoing conflict..."
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