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$15.00

Betool Khedairi A Sky So Close

This debut novel by Iraqi-Scottish writer Betool Khedairi examines the contradictions of growing up "formed by two cultures yet fully accepted by neither , " living both in Baghdad and the United Kingdom . Khedairi , through an "unnamed narrator" depicts her "struggles with isolation both in the traditional Iraqi countryside where she's raised and at the Western school of music and ballet that her mother insists she attend." Khedairi takes the narrator through the outbreak of the Gulf War , which forces her to leave her native land to live in England with her mother. There , "her most pointed heartaches await." A Sky So Close is a "daringly fresh look into the clash between East and West."

 

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Wendy Pearlman Occupied Voices

At the beginning of the intifada , Wendy Pearlman , studying for her Ph. D. at Harvard University , traveled throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip talking to ordinary Palestinians about their experiences of the intifada , their daily lives and their hopes for the future. She penetrated the distortion inherent in most media presentations of the conflict and in the rhetorical gestures employed by officials and spokespeople on all sides. In the process she revealed just what it is that makes Palestinians cling to their rights and their lands so tenaciously. Pearlman writes , "the personal stories and heartfelt reflections that I encountered did not expose a hatred of Jews or a yearning to push Israelis into the sea. Rather , they painted a portrait of a people who longed for precisely that which had inspired the first Israelis: the chance to be citizens in a country of their own."

 

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Naseer Aruri Dishonest Broker

The title of Dr. Naseer Aruri's latest book succinctly sums up the role that the United States has played in 'mediating' the conflicts between Israel , its neighbors and its native population: a role the United States has appropriated and dominated for more than 30 years. A follow up to his brilliant The Obstruction of Peace , which detailed the contradictions and injustices of the then-unfolding Oslo process , in Dishonest Broker Aruri takes the reader up to the total dissolution of the peace process and return to asymmetrical warfare of the current intifada. He demystifies the role of the United States in this apparently failed attempt to find a peaceful solution , beginning with an overview of U.S. policy towards Israel from the inception of the state until the present and providing , in the words of Professor Noam Chomsky , "a powerful corrective to illusion and misrepresentation." Includes full-color historical maps of Palestine and various peace plans and proposals.

 

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Cheryl Rubenberg The Palestinians: In Search of a Just Peace

After living for more than three decades under occupation by Israel—and ten years after the Oslo Accords were heralded as the first step toward the resolution of a century of conflict—the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza struggle daily with conditions of severe economic, social, and psychological deprivation. What explains the dismal failure of the post-Oslo peace process? What propels the prolonged and devastating upheaval known as the al-Aqsa intifada? Cheryl Rubenberg's forceful, penetrating critique of the Oslo Accords and their aftermath points to the starkly contrasting objectives of Israel and the Palestinians.

Rubenberg conveys how Israeli policies have eroded Palestinian commitment to a peace process, how U.S intervention has affected the region, and how pervasive corruption within the Palestinian government has played a role. Her somber conclusion supports the contention that peace in the region, while hoped for by many, depends entirely on unlikely shifts in policy and objectives on all sides, which leaves the Palestinians further from realizing their aspirations for self-determination than at any time since 1967.

 

$10 or all 3 Edward Said books for $25

Edward Said
The Question of Palestine

Still a basic and indispensable account of the Palestinian question, updated to include the most recent developments in the Middle East- from the intifada to the Gulf war to the historic peace conference in Madrid .

 

$10 or all 3 Edward Said books for $25

Edward Said
Orientalism

The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University , examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs. With a new foreword written by the author in 2003.

 

$10 or all 3 Edward Said books for $25

Edward Said
Out of Place

From one of the most important intellectuals of our time comes an extraordinary story of exile and a celebration of an irrecoverable past. A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that he should leave a record of where he was born and spent his childhood, and so with this memoir he rediscovers the lost Arab world of his early years in Palestine , Lebanon , and Egypt . Said writes with great passion and wit about his family and his friends from his birthplace in Jerusalem , schools in Cairo , and summers in the mountains above Beirut , to boarding school and college in the United States , revealing an unimaginable world of rich, colorful characters and exotic eastern landscapes. Underscoring all is the confusion of identity the young Said experienced as he came to terms with the dissonance of being an American citizen, a Christian and a Palestinian, and, ultimately, an outsider. Richly detailed, moving, often profound, Out of Place depicts young man's coming of age and the genesis of a great modern thinker.

 

$20.00

The Wall in Palestine : Facts, Testimonies, Analysis and Call to Action , Edited by The Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network (PENGON) Jerusalem , 2003, 199 pages.

To date, some 300,000 people are currently affected by the land confiscation, tree uprooting and inaccessibility to lands and water due to the caging off of their communities, throughout the northern West Bank , Jerusalem and Bethlehem , with concrete walls and electric fences. This book is critical resource and tool to explain what the Wall is, its shocking impact on Palestinian civil society, and its reshaping of the entire West Bank .

One hundred pictures throughout the book tell the whole story. The book is an impressive mix of detailed report, photo journal, activist resource guide, and an anthology. Contributors to the publication include the PENGON member organizations and the Wall Campaign Emergency Centers. Nine guest articles covering a range of topics and angles give further depth to this massive construct, while highlighting the point that is consistent throughout the report and testimonies: in whatever which way, the Wall is meant to control, destroy, and oppress.

The book is perhaps the best resource currently available on the Wall. But more so, the layout and the section about the Apartheid Wall Campaign, an NGO and grassroots coordinated effort lead by PENGON, demands us to acknowledge that the book be used as a tool in advocacy. Wall or fence, the results are the same. If the Wall is completed it will cross and besiege every West Bank district.

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