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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2013
Description
5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later turned into a galvanizing cinematic experience by co-directors Burnat and Davidi.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Description
An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations. It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine, while the illusions that obscure humanity's...
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Formats
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"As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait in the '70s to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon. Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she's...
Author
Publisher
Miramax Books
Description
Leap of Faith is the dramatic and inspiring story of an American woman's remarkable journey into the heart of a man and his nation. Born into a distinguished Arab-American family and raised amid privilege, Lisa Halaby joined the first freshman class at Princeton to accept women, graduating in 1974 with a degree in architecture and urban planning. Two years later, while visiting her father in Jordan, she was casually introduced on the airport runway...
Series
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Description
In director Randa Chahal Sabbag's fairytale for troubled times, sixteen-year-old Lamia must cross a border checkpoint between Lebanon and Israel to marry a man she has never met. Neither she nor her betrothed are eager to consummate the marriage, a matter further complicated by Lamia's surprising admission that she is in love with the Israeli soldier guarding the border.
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Two siblings, Nessa and Ephra Stein, children of a Zionist arms procurer, now run a foundation aiming to reduce the conflict through increasing Palestine's economic prosperity. When Nessa's foundation is about to announce a major business contract with a prominent Palestinian businessman, he is found dead in an apparent suicide. As doubt circles around his cause of death, an international investigation turns into a manhunt.
Author
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Description
This book describes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, explaining that under the partition plan, Palestinians were allotted 4500 square miles, while the new Jewish state occupied 5500 square miles, and today the conflict remains complex and controversial.
Author
Publisher
Nation Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"In Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens. Beginning with the national elections carried out during Israel's war on Gaza in 2008-09, which brought into power the country's most right-wing government to...
57) Searching for peace in the Middle East: Israeli & Palestinian conversations with Landrum Bolling
Publisher
Foundation for Middle East Peace
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Explores the issues that divide the Israelis and Palestinians through interviews with Israelis and Palestinians of diverse backgrounds, describing a common yearning for peace and calling for new American diplomatic leadership in the peace process.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Description
"In a move that would forever alter the map of the Middle East, Israel captured the West Bank, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip, and Sinai Peninsula in 1967's brief but pivotal Six Day War. Cursed Victory is the first complete history of the war's troubled aftermath--a military occupation of the Palestinian territories that is now well into its fifth decade. Drawing on unprecedented access to high-level sources, top-secret memos and never-before-published...
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