Books from Palestine
47 popular palestinian books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Asia Challenge" were written by authors from Palestine.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Forest of Noise : Poems by Mosab Abu Toha EN
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • "A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet. You are alive for a moment when living people run after you. Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed and destroyed his house, pulverizing a library he had painstakingly built for community use, he and his family fled for their safety. Not for the first time in their lives. Somehow, amid the chaos, Abu Toha kept writing poems. These are... continue
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Haifa Fragments by Khulud Khamis EN
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As a designer of jewelry, Maisoon wants an ordinary extraordinary life, which isn t easy for a tradition-defying activist and Palestinian citizen of Israel who refuses to be crushed by the feeling that she is an unwelcome guest in the land of her ancestors. She volunteers for the Machsom Watch, an organization that helps children in the Occupied Territories cross the border to receive medical care. Frustrated by her boyfriend Ziyad and her father, who both want her to get on with life and forget those in the Occupied Territories, she lashes out only to discover her father isn t the man she tho... continue
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Heißer Frühling by Sahar Khalifa DE
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Frühjahr 2002: Die israelische Armee belagert den Regierungssitz von Jassir Arafat in Ramallah. Atemlos verfolgt die Welt die dramatischen Vorgänge. Unter den letzten Verteidigern des in Trümmer liegenden Hauptquartiers ist auch Madschid, der seine Erlebnisse und Eindrücke in einem Tagebuch festhält.
Madschids Jugendtraum war eigentlich, als Sänger berühmt zu werden. Aber auch sein jüngerer Bruder Ahmed wird durch die Ereignisse aus der Bahn geworfen. Linkisch und verträumt, interessierte er sich nur fürs Malen und Fotografieren. Nun arbeitet ... continue
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I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti EN
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Palestinian poet Barghouti relates his homecoming to Ramallah after 30 years in exile, offering a moving account of what it means to be a Palestinian today. Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.
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I Shall Not Hate : A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity by Izzeldin Abuelaish EN
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A Harvard-educated Palestinian physician who was raised in a Gaza Strip refugee camp recounts the 2009 bombing attack that killed his daughters, describing how he has cared for patients on both sides of the conflict and won awards for humanitarian acts urging peaceful resolutions.
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In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish EN
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One of the most transcendent poets of his generation, Darwish composed this remarkable elegy at the apex of his creativity, but with the full knowledge that his death was imminent. Thinking it might be his final work, he summoned all his poetic genius to create a luminous work that defies categorization. In stunning language, Darwish’s self-elegy inhabits a rare space where opposites bleed and blend into each other. Prose and poetry, life and death, home and exile are all sung by the poet and his other. On the threshold of im/mortality, the poet looks back at his own existence, intertwined wit... continue
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Jerusalem : A Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi EN
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A collection of 120 recipes exploring the flavors of Jerusalem from the New York Times bestselling author of Plenty, one of the most lauded cookbooks of 2011. In Jerusalem, Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi explore the vibrant cuisine of their home city—with its diverse Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities. Both men were born in Jerusalem in the same year—Tamimi on the Arab east side and Ottolenghi in the Jewish west. This stunning cookbook offers 120 recipes from their unique cross-cultural perspective, from inventive vegetable dishes to sweet, rich desserts. With five bustling restaurant... continue
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Light in Gaza : Essays for the Future by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, Mike Merryman-Lotze EN
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Light in Gaza gathers a collective Palestinian vision of what a future Gaza could be.
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Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: And Other Poems by Ghassan Zaqtan EN
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A translation of the works of one of a key Palestinian poet contains his 10th and most recent poetry collection, along with selected earlier poems that illuminate the vision of what Arabic and Palestinian poetry are capable of.
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Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani EN
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This collection of important stories by novelist, journalist, teacher and Palestinina activist Ghassan Kanafani includes 'Men in the Sun,' the basis of the film 'The Deceived.' Also in the volume are 'The Land of Sad Oranges', 'If You Were A Horse', 'The Falcon' and 'Letter from Gaza.'