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Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity

by Hil Aked

Is there such a thing as “the Israel lobby,” and how powerful is it really?
The Blue Manuscript

by Sabiha Al Khemir

An enchanting story of the search for an ancient artifact.
A Child in Palestine

by Naji al-Ali

The first collection by the leading Palestinian political cartoonist, introduced by the author of Palestine.

30 posts
Islams and Modernities

by Aziz Al-Azmeh
Challenges ahistorical and erroneous conceptions of Islam and the West.
11 posts

Bush in Babylon

by Tariq Ali
The bestselling history of the resistance in Iraq that vitalized the antiwar movement, fully updated.
18 posts
The Clash of Fundamentalisms

by Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali dissects both Islamic and Western fundamentalism.

27 posts
The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan

by Tariq Ali

The occupation of Afghanistan is over, and a balance sheet can be drawn. These essays on war and peace in the region reveal Tariq Ali at his sharpest and most prescient.

5 posts
Peace Under Fire

Edited by Ghassan Andoni, Huwaida Arraf, et al.
The story of the International Solidarity Movement.
4 posts

A Woman Called Moses

by Jean-Christophe Attias

What if there was another Moses, very different from the one we know?
Civil Imagination

by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
The “Copernican Revolution” in studying photography brings to light how images can both reinforce and resist power regimes.
21 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
Messages to the World

by Osama bin Laden
“Unless he dies a natural death in hiding, it seems inevitable that sooner or later his hunter will catch him. If captured alive, he will doubtless be killed on the spot.”—from the introduction.
12 posts

The 51 Day War

by Max Blumenthal

Best-selling author reports on Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza in July 2014

10 posts
The Management of Savagery

by Max Blumenthal

The rise of international jihad and Western ultra-nationalism
An Army Like No Other

by Haim Bresheeth-Zabner

A history of the IDF that argues that Israel is a nation formed by its army.

2 posts
The New Intifada

Edited by Roane Carey

Introduced by Noam Chomsky, an outstanding set of essays about the horrific, dystopian tragedy that the Israel-Palestine conflict remains.

The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust

by Noam Chayut

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

14 posts
An Orchestra Beyond Borders

by Elena Cheah
The untold story of the West-Eastern Divan, an orchestra reaching across the Israeli-Arab divide.
2 posts
The Age of Jihad

by Patrick Cockburn

From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East’s disintegration

22 posts
Behind Enemy Lies

by Patrick Cockburn
The war of truth and lies in the Middle East
4 posts

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