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Traces of History

by Patrick Wolfe

How race rose and spread across the globe

24 posts
Civil Imagination

by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
The “Copernican Revolution” in studying photography brings to light how images can both reinforce and resist power regimes.
14 posts
Operation Ajax

by Mike de Seve
Graphic true-life spy thriller about the CIA mission that overthrew Iran’s democracy
11 posts
Return

by Ghada Karmi

“In Search of Fatima was a beautifully written and moving narrative... Return is both a sequel and a stand-alone memoir.” – Avi Shlaim, Guardian

35 posts

Syrian Notebooks

by Jonathan Littell
A blistering firsthand account of the conflict in Homs by the internationally acclaimed author of The Kindly Ones
24 posts
Letters to Palestine

Edited by Vijay Prashad

Impassioned and intimate writing to Palestinians from celebrated American writers

43 posts
The Rise of Islamic State

by Patrick Cockburn

The essential “on the ground” report on the fastest-growing new threat in the Middle East from the Winner of the 2014 Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year Award

53 posts
The Holocaust Industry

by Norman G. Finkelstein

Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain

15 posts

The Muslims Are Coming!

by Arun Kundnani
Powerful critique of UK and US surveillance and repression of Muslims and prosecution of homegrown terrorism
72 posts
How I Stopped Being a Jew

by Shlomo Sand

An autobiographical essay on Jewish identity from the acclaimed author of The Invention of the Jewish People

25 posts
Shattered Hopes

by Josh Ruebner

Hard-hitting critique of Obama administration’s failure to broker Israeli–Palestinian peace, by a leading DC-based advocate

13 posts
Revolution in the Age of Social Media

by Linda Herrera
An accessible guide to the enduring struggle between people and power in the digital age
10 posts

The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland

by Shlomo Sand

Groundbreaking new work from the controversial author of The Invention of the Jewish People

40 posts
The Idea of Israel

by Ilan Pappe

A major new history of Zionism and Israel, by the renowned author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

30 posts
Soldiers, Spies, and Statesmen

by Hazem Kandil
Gripping analysis of Egypt's transformation from military regime to police state, on the road to revolution
6 posts
Reflections on Anti-Semitism

by Alain Badiou, Eric Hazan, et al.

Dissecting how facile accusations of “anti-Semitism” are used to stifle dissent.

47 posts

Carbon Democracy

by Timothy Mitchell

How oil undermines democracy, and our ability to address the environmental crisis

30 posts
The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust

by Noam Chayut

Haunting, beautifully written and deeply moving memoir of a young Israeli soldier

13 posts
Being Arab

by Samir Kassir
A passionate meditation on contemporary Arab identity.
12 posts
The Journey to Tahrir

Edited by Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing

Leading analysts of Egypt on repression, dissent and the dramatic revolution

8 posts

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