Book List

The following book list is a compilation in progress. Some of our favorites are highlighted. Please send your suggestions for additions and changes to friends@fosna.org.

Books on The Middle East

Adiv, Assaf & Schwartz, Michael. Sharon's Star Wars: Israel's Seven Star Settlement Plan, Hanitzotz A-Sharara, (Paperback) 1992.

American Friends Service Committee. When the Rain Returns: Toward Justice and Reconciliation in Palestine and Israel (with study guide). Prepared by an International Quaker Working Party on Israel and Palestine. 2004.

Armstrong, Karen. The Battle for God, Ballantine (Paperback) January 2001.

Aruri, Naseer (ed.) Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return, Pluto Press (Paperback) 2001.

Aruri, Naseer H. Dishonest Broker: The U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine, South End Press (Paperback) 2003.

Ashrawi, Hanan. This Side of Peace: A Personal Account, Simon and Schuster, 1995.

Ateek, Naim. Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation, Orbis Books, New York, 1989. Also available from Friends of Sabeel.

Ateek, Naim. Suicide Bomber: What is theologically and morally wrong with suicide bombings? Sabeel Document Series. Available from Friends of Sabeel.

Ateek, Naim and Cedar Duabis, Marla Schrader (eds). Jerusalem: What Makes for Peace. Sabeel.

Ateek, Naim; Duaybis, Cedar; and Tobin, Maurine (eds). Challenging Christian Zionism: Theology, Politics and the Israel-Palestine Conflict. Melisende, London (Paperback) 2005. This book contains the papers of the 5th International Conference of Sabeel held at Notre Dame of Jerusalem in April 2004.

Ateek, Naim and Michael Prior (ed). Holy Land, Hollow Jubilee (Arabic & English) Melisende, London, 1999 This book contains the papers of the Third International Conference of Sabeel (the Palestinian Liberation Theology Centre) held at Bethlehem University, February 1998.

Ateek, Naim and Hilary Rantisi. Our Story—The Palestinians, Sabeel, 1998.

Awad, Alex. Through the Eyes of the Victims: The Story of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Bethlehem Bible College, Paperback, 2001

Baker, William W. Theft of a Nation, Defenders Publications (Paperback) 1982

Baltzer, Anna. Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories, Paradigm Publishers 2007. www.annainthemiddleeast.com

Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin. Original Sins: Reflections on the History of Zionism and Israel, Olive Branch Press (Paperback) 1993

Bennis, Phyllis. Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Trans-Arab Research Institute, TARI.org, 2000

Bennis, Phyllis. Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today’s UN, Interlink, New York, 2000

Bennis, Phyllis. Before & After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11 Crisis, Interlink, New York, 2003

Boyle, Francis. Palestine, Palestinians and International Law, Clarity Press (Paperback) 2003

Brenner, Lenni. The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir, Zed (Paperback) 1984

Carey, Roane (ed.). The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid, New Press (Hardcover) 2002

Carey, Roane & Shainin, Jonathan (eds.). The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent, New Press (Hardcover) 2002

Carter, Jimmy. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Simon & Schuster
(Hardcover) 2006

Chacham, Ronit, Breaking Ranks: Refusing to Serve in the West Bank & Gaza Strip, Other Press, 2003

Chacour, Elias. Blood Brothers, Chosen Books, 1984

Chacour, Elias. We Belong to the Land: The Story of a Palestinian Israeli who Lives for Peace and Reconciliation, Harper Collins (Paperback) 1990

Chapman, Colin. Whose Promised Land?

Chomsky, Noam. Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, & the Palestinians (Updated Edition) South End Press (Paperback) 1999

Christison, Kathleen. Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy, University of California Press (Paperback) 1999

Christison, Kathleen. The Wound of Dispossession: Telling the Palestinian Story, Sunlit Hills Press (Paperback) 2001

Cook, Catherine, Hanieh, Adam & Kay, Adam. Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel's Detention of Palestinian Children, Pluto Press (Paperback) 2004

Cossali, Paul & Robson, Clive. Stateless in Gaza, Zed (Paperback) 1986

Cramer, Richard Ben. How Israel Lost: The Four Questions, Simon & Schuster (Hardcover) 2004

Dahmash-Jarrah, Samar. Arab Voices Speak to American Hearts, Olive Branch Books, 2005

Dalrymple, William. From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1997

Dor, Daniel. Intifada Hits the Headlines: How the Israeli Press Misreported the Outbreak of the Second Palestinian Uprising, Indiana University Press (Paperback) 2004

Elliott, Liza. Finding Palestine: One American's Trek from the Midwest to the Middle East, Hope Publishing House (Paperback) 2002

Ellis, Marc. Beyond Innocence and Redemption: Confronting the Holocaust

Findley, Paul. Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts about the U.S.-Israeli Relationship, American Educational Trust (Paperback) 1995

Finkelstein, Norman G. Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (2nd ed.), Verso (Paperback) 2003

Finkelstein, Norman G. Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History (Hardcover) August 2005

Finkelstein, Norman G. The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (Paperback) October 2003

Finkelstein, Norman G. Ariel Sharon (Library Binding) January 2005

Fischbach, Michael R. Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Columbia University Press (Hardcover) 2004

Friedman, Robert I. Zealots for Zion: Inside Israel's West Bank Settlement Movement, Random House (Hardcover) 1992

Gaffney, Mark. Dimona: The Third Temple? The Story Behind the Vanunu Revelation, Amana Publications (Paperback) 1989

Gee, John R. Unequal Conflict: The Palestinians and Israel, Olive Branch Press (Paperback) 1998

Gluck, Sherna Berger. An American Feminist in Palestine: The Intifada Years, Temple University Press (Paperback) 1994

Gowers, Andrew & Walker, Tony. Behind the Myth: Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Revolution, Olive Branch Press (Hardcover) 1991

Haddad, Hassan & Wagner, Donald. All in the Name of the Bible: Selected Essays on Israel and American Christian Fundamentalism, Amana Publishers (Paperback) 1986

Hajjar, Lisa. Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza, University of California Press (Paperback) 2005

Hamzeh, Muna. Refugees in Our Own Land: Chronicles from a Palestinian Refugee Camp, Pluto Press (Hardcover) 2001

Hamzeh, Muna & May, Todd (eds.). Operation Defensive Shield: Witnesses to Israeli War Crimes, Pluto Press (Paperback) 2003

Harkabi, Yehoshafat. Israel's Fateful Hour (Revised & updated ed.), Harper & Row (Paperback) 1988

Harper, Paul. Poles and Palestinians--Labouring Under Oppression

Hass, Amira. Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege, Owl Books (Paperback) 1999

Heller, Mark A. & Nusseibeh, Sari. No Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Hill & Wang (Hardcover) 1991

Hewitt, Garth. Toward the Dawn: A Journey through Easter to Pentecost, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Holy trinity Church, London, 2004

Idliby, Ranya; Oliver, Suzanne; Warner, Priscilla. The Faith Club: A Muslim,
A Christian, A Jew--Three Women Search for Understanding

Johnson, Sue. The Other Side of Welcome

Khoury, Maria. Witness in The Holy Land, www.saintgeorgetaybeh.org

Levin, Jerry. West Bank Diary: Middle East Violence as Reported by a Former American Hostage, Hope Publishing House, Pasadena, CA, 800-326-2671 (Paperback) 2005.

Nassar, Alison Jones and Strickert, Fred. Imm Mathilda: A Bethlehem Mother’s Diary, Kirk House Publishers, Minneapolis, 2003

Nathan, Susan. The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide, Doubleday, 2005

Nusseibeh, Sari. Once Upon a Country

O’Grady, Ellen. Outside the Ark: An Artist’s Journey in Occupied Palestine, 55 Books, Durham, NC. 2005

O’Mahony, Anthony (ed.). Eastern Christianity: Studies In Modern History, Religion and Politics, Melisende, London, 2004

Pappe, Ilan. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover) October 2006

The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.’ - David Ben-Gurion writing to his son, 1937.
‘There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.’ - Golda Meir

Pappe, Ilan. (ed.) The Israel/Palestine Question

Pappe, Ilan. The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1947-1951

Pearlman, Wendy. Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada

PENGON. The Wall in Palestine: Facts, Testimonies, Analysis and Call to Action

Perry, Mark. A Fire in Zion: The Israeli-Palestinian Search for Peace

Powers, Janet M. Blossoms on the Olive Tree: Israeli and Palestinian Women Working for Peace. Westport, CN: Praeger, 2006. "It is hearing the stories of real people which brings alive the dryness of statistics and the coldness of official reports. The genius and skill of Janet Powers is to enable us to share in the experiences of women from Israel and Palestine, as they struggle with all the restrictions imposed on them by the political and religious systems within which they live. With clarity and sensitivity she lets these women speak, and the honesty with which their stories are recorded will challenge all of us, and the cliches behind which we often take refuge." Rev. Clarence Musgrave, St. Andrews Church of Scotland, Jerusalem jpowers0135@earthlink.net

Prior, Michael C.M. A Living Stone: Selected Essays & Addresses
(by Michael Prior) Duncan MacPherson, editor. Melisende, London, 2006

Prior, Michael C.M. (ed.) Speaking the Truth About Zionism and Israel, Melisende, London, 2004

Prior, Michael C.M. (ed.) They Came and They Saw: Western Christian Experiences in the Holy Land, Melisende, London. 2000

Prior, Michael C.M. Zionism and the State of Israel: A Moral Inquiry, Routledge, London and New York, 1999

Prior, Michael C.M. and William Taylor (eds.). Christians in the Holy Land (English & Arabic), Melisende, London, 1994 (paperback)

Qumsiyeh, Mazin B. Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle

Raheb, Mitri. Bethlehem Besieged: Stories of Hope in Times of Trouble, Fortress Press, 2004

Raheb, Mitri. I am a Palestinian Christian, Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1995

Randal, Jonathan C. Going all the Way: Christian Warlords, Israeli Adventurers, and the War in Lebanon

Reporters Without Borders (ed.). Israel/Palestine: The Black Book

Rogan, Eugene & Shlaim, Avi (eds.) The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948

Rubenberg, Cheryl A. The Palestinians: In Search of a Just Peace

Ruether, Rosemary Radford and Herman J. The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 2002

Sabbagh, Karl. Palestine: A Personal History, Atlantic Books.
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Sabeel Document Series. Available from Friends of Sabeel.

The Jerusalem Sabeel Document: Principles for a Just Peace in Palestine- Israel (2004)
Cornerstone (Quarterly theological journal)
A Call for Morally Responsible Investment: A Nonviolent Response to the Occupation (2005)
Suicide Bombers
For He is Our Peace… And Has Broken Down the Dividing Wall (An Advent Study Course)
Challenging Illusions- Seeking a Just Peace (A Lenten Study Course)
Contemporary Way of Cross
A Christian Palestinian Life: Faith and Struggle and Overcoming Direct and Structural Violence- Truth and Peacemaking in the Palestinian Experience. Zaru, Jean. 2004

Sacco, Joe. Palestine, Fantagraphics Books (comics/cartoons--Paperback) 2001

Safieh, Afif. On Palestinian Diplomacy (PLO Mission--63 pages, Paperback) 2001 Click here for online pdf file

Said, Edward. From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map: Essays

Said, Edward. Peace and its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process, Vintage (Paperback) 1995

Said, Edward. The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994, Vintage (Paperback) 1994

Said, Edward. The Question of Palestine, Vintage (Paperback) 1992

Said, Edward. Out of Place: A Memoir, Vintage (Paperback) 1999

Said, Edward. The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After, Random House (Paperback) 2000

Said, Edward. Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World, Vintage (Paperback) 1981

Said, Edward. Orientalism, Vintage (Paperback) 1994

Sandercock, Josie et al. (eds.) Peace Under Fire: Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement, Verso (Paperback) 2004

Schiff, Ze'ev & Ya'ari, Ehud. Israel's Lebanon War, Simon & Schuster (Hardcover) 1984

Schmida, Leslie. Keys to Control: Israel's Pursuit of Arab Water Resources

Segal, Rafi & Weisman, Eyal (eds.) A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture, Verso (Hardcover) 2003

Shahak, Israel. Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years

Shahak, Israel. Open Secrets: Israeli Nuclear and Foreign Policies

Shahak, Israel & Mezvinsky, Norton. Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel (2nd ed.)

Shehadeh, Raja. Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine

Shlaim, Avi. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World

Shlaim, Avi. War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History (Revised & Updated Edition)

Sizer, Stephen. Christian Zionism: The Road to Armageddon

Strickert, Fred. Rachel Weeping: Jews, Christians, and Muslims at the Fortress Tomb, Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN (Paperback) 2008.

Swedenburg, Ted. Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past

Tarbush, Mohammad. Reflections of a Palestinian

Thomas, Gordon. Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad

Tobin, Maruine and Robert. How Long Oh Lord

Tolan, Sandy. The Lemon Tree

Trocmé, André. Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution (208-page pdf file)

Venn-Brown, Janet (ed.) For a Palestinian: A Memorial to Wael Zuaiter

Viorst, Milton. Sands of Sorrow: Israel's Journey from Independence

Wagner, Donald. Anxious for Armageddon, Herald Press, Scottdale, PA, 1995

Wagner, Donald. Dying in the Land of Promise: Palestine and Palestinian Christianity from Pentecost to 2000, (New updated ed.) Melisende, London, 2003

Younan, Munib. Witnessing for Peace: In Jerusalem and the World, Augsburg Fortress (Paperback) 2003

Zunes, Stephen. Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism, Common Courage Press, 2003

Children’s Books

Abbas, Jailan. Festivals of Egypt

Alta, C. God Created Everything

Azzam, Leila. The Lives of the Prophets

Bahous, Sally. Sitti and the Cats: A Tale of Friendship

Devine, Barbara. Elvis the Camel

Durkee, Noura. The Three Shirts of Joseph

George, Linda. The Golden Age of Islam

Hart, George. Tales from Ancient Egypt

Heide, Florence & Judith Gilliland. Sami and the Time of the Troubles

Heide, Florence & Judith Gilliland. The Day of Ahmed's Secret

Hickox, Rebecca. The Golden Sandal

Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane. Celebrating Ramadan

Johnson-Davies, Denys.
Aladdin and the Lamp
Animal Tales from the Arab World
Folk Tales of Egypt
Goha
Maarouf and the Dream Caravan
Tales from Morocco
Tales from Sudan

Khoury, Maria.
Christian Goes to the Holy Land
Christina Goes to Church
Christian Learns the Sacraments
Christina’s Favorite Saints
www.saintgeorgetaybeh.org

Macdonald, Fiona. Ibn Tulun: The Story of a Mosque

Major, John S. The Silk Route: 7,000 Miles of History

Marshall, Julia. Shah Jahan & the Story of the Taj Mahal

Marshall, Julia. Suleiman the Magnificent and the Story of Istanbul

Monahan, Nazli Irani. Wonders of Persia

Nye, Naomi Shihab. Habibi: A Novel
Sitti's Secrets

Profilet, Cynthia. Kamal's Quest

Prokofiev, Sergei (music & story), Girgis, Nazeh (translator & narrator). Peter and the Wolf (English/Arabic book, with cassette)

Shedd, Carol (ed.) (Revised ed.) Are You Listening? Voices from the Middle East

Smart, Andy. Nesma Buys the Beans

Spencer, William. Iran: Land of the Peacock Throne

Winter, Jeanette. The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq

Journals

Forced Migration Review (Issue 26, August 2006), "Palestinian Displacement: a cast apart ? PDF file

Holy Land Studies, Edinburgh University Press. Founding Editors: Michael Prior (1942-2004) and Nur Masalha

International Journal of Middle East Studies: jstor.org

Middle East Policy Council: mepc.org

Middle East Review of International Affairs: meria.idc.ac.il

Middle East Report: merip.org

The Middle East Journal: mideasti.org

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs: wrmea.com

Literature

Abdul-Baki, Kathryn K. Fields of Fig and Olive: Ameera and other Stories of the Middle East

Abdul-Baki, Kathryn K. Tower of Dreams

Al-Amily, Husain Mohammed. The Book of Arabic Wisdom: Proverbs & Anecdotes

Ali, Tariq.
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
The Book of Saladin
The Stone Woman

Attar, Farid ud-Din. The Conference of the Birds

Barakat, Halim. Days of Dust

Barghouti, Mourid. I Saw Ramallah

Darwish, Mahmoud.
Memory for Forgetfulness
Unfortunately It Was Paradise
The Adam of Two Edens
The Raven’s Ink

Fawal, Ibrahim. On the Hills of God

Gibran, Kahlil.
Broken Wings
Spirit Brides
The Prophet
The Beloved: Reflections on the Path of the Heart
The Storm: Stories and Prose Poems
The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul

Handal, Nathalie (ed.). The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology

Hussein, Taha. The Days: His Autobiography in Three Parts

Jayyusi, Salma Khadra (ed.). Short Arabic Plays: An Anthology

Khalifeh, Sahar. Wild Thorns

Maalouf, Amin. Leo Africanus

Mahfouz, Naguib.
Children of Gebelaawi
Fountain and Tomb
Miramar
Palace Walk: Cairo Trilogy I
Sugar Street: Cairo Trilogy III
Palace of Desire: Cairo Trilogy II

Mattawa, Khaled & Akash, Munir (eds.). Post Gibran: Anthology of New Arab American Writing

Nuweihed, Jamal Sleem. Abu Jmeel's Daughter and Other Stories: Arab Folk Tales from Palestine and Lebanon

Nye, Naomi Shihab. The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East

Roth, Philip. The Counterlife

Sabbagh, Isa Khalil. "As the Arabs Say…": Arabic Quotations Recalled and Interpreted, Vol. 2

Ward, Patricia Sarrafian. The Bullet Collection

Educational Resources

AMIDEAST. Young Voices from the Arab World: The lives and times of five teenagers

CPAP. The Conflict in the Middle East: Analyzing the Present, Prospects for the Future

Shabbas, Audrey & Al-Qazzaz, Ayad (eds.). Arab World Notebook: Secondary School Level

Shabbas, Audrey, El-Shaieb, Carol & An-Nabulsi, Ahlam. The Arabs: Activities for the Elementary School Level

Williams, Caroline F. Cairo: 1001 Years of Art & Architecture

Cook Books

Abourezk, Sanaa. Secrets of Healthy Middle Eastern Cuisine

Batmanglij, Najmieh. New Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies

Karaoglan, Aida. Food for the Vegetarian: Traditional Lebanese Recipes

Salloum, Mary. A Taste of Lebanon: Cooking Today the Lebanese Way

Salloum, Habeeb & Peters, James. From the Lands of Figs and Olives

Sawaya, Linda Dalal. Alice’s Kitchen: My Grandmother’s Dalal and Mother Alice’s Traditional Lebanese Cooking Weiss-Ar