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Subject guide

Palestine and Israel

This subject guide is a work in progress, aimed to provide access to relevant academic works and online resources on Palestine and Israel, as well as, documentaries, films, and literature to familiarize yourself with the complexities of the conflict.

Context

Podcasts

Webinars

Sourcebooks

Political Science and History

Cultural History and Cultural Studies

Novels

  • Salt Houses by Hala Alyan (2017), four generations of the Yakoub family, from Palestine to Kuwait, Beirut, Paris and the US.
  • Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (....), weaves together past and present while a Palestinian woman investigates the rape of a Bedouin girl by an Israeli officer in the Negev desert in 1948. Also available in Dutch translation. 

  • Men in the Sun literary classic by Ghassan Kanafani (1962), literary classic

  • Gate of the Sun by the Lebanese author Elias Khoury (2006), experimental and fragmentary epic of the Palestinian exodus (1948)

  • Wild thorns by Sahar Khalifeh.

  • The Perfect Peace by Amos Oz (1982), life and tensions in a Kibbutz just before the outbreak of the Six-Day-War

  • Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa.

  • Track changes by Sayed Qashu.

  • Tale of love and darkness by Amos Oz.

Graphic Novels and Visual Sources

  • Palestine Joe Sacco (2003), gripping report from Joe Sacco’s months in Palestine during the first intifada. He also published Footnotes in Gaza (2009) about the 1956 killings in Rafah and Khan Younis

  • Baddawi by Leila Abelrazaq (2015), tells the story of the author’s flight from Palestine and life in a camp in Lebanon

  • Tunnels by Rutu Modan (2021), ironic tale of treasure hunters in the politicized field of Bible archaeology across Israeli and Palestinian territories

  • The Palestine Poster Project. Collection of political posters

Poetry

Documentaries

  • Three promises, 2023, written and directed by Yousef Shrouji
  • Liwan: A story of cultural resistance, 2023,  written and directed by Doris Hakim
  • Five broken cameras, 2012, written by Guy Davidi and directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
  • I signed the petition, 2018, Mahdi Fleifel. Experimental short video in which two young Palestinians in the diaspora discuss Palestinian solidarity politics.
  • Promises, 2001, written by B.Z. Goldberg. follows the life of 7 Jewish and Palestinian children from 1995-1998.

Movies and Television

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