Journal of Palestine studies twenty-five-year index (1971-1996)

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In the Land of My Birth recounts the coming of age of a blind Palestinian boy of modest milieu during the turbulent years leading up to the fall of Palestine in 1948. Above all, it is about the boy's life and his struggles to make his way in the sighted world, his upbringing, schooling, friendships, and adventures. It is a compelling human story with a mine of information on popular culture and customs, the educational system, and Palestinian life. While the looming conflict forms the essential backdrop, it comes to the fore only when it impinges directly on the boy's world. The fact that the memoir unfolds largely in real time, with events, conversations, and situations recounted not retrospectively but as they are experienced, provides a rare window on the political attitudes, social views, legends, prejudices, perceptions and misperceptions of ordinary Palestinians at the time, unmediated and unvarnished. Essential reading for anyone interested in the cultural, social, and political history of Palestine, the condition of blindness, and the education of the blind.

In the Land of My Birth: A Palestinian Boyhood

Reja-e Busailah

Before Their Diaspora is a visual journey into life in Palestine before its partition in 1948. Every important aspect of modern Palestinian history comes to life in the nearly 500 photographs carefully selected from thousands uncovered in private and public collections throughout the world. Descriptive, analytic texts introduce each of the five historical periods into which the book is divided, and detailed chronologies complete the overviews.

Before their diaspora: A photographic history of the Palestinians, 1876-1948

History

Walid Khalidi

Middle East

Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of The Palestinians 1876-1948

KHALIDI, WALID

Creating facts: Israel, Palestinians, and the West Bank

Aronson, Geoffrey

United Nations Resolutions On Palestine And The Arab Israeli Conflict

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

In this ground-breaking and comprehensive study, Sara Roy examines in detail the political economy of the Gaza Strip since the Israeli occupation in 1967. Providing an historical context for Israeli economic policy, Roy argues that despite certain economic benefits that have accrued to the Gaza Strip as a result of its interaction with Israel, Israeli policy in the strip has been guided by political concerns that not only hindered, but blocked internal economic development. The first study of its kind to investigate fully Palestinian economic development in Gaza, The Gaza Strip is of great importance for not only economists and development specialists, but also scholars, policy makers and all those interested in Gaza.

The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development

Business & Money

Roy, Sara

Economics

Fallen Pillars is a concise summary of the dramatic evolution of American policy towards Palestine and Israel over the past half century. It demonstrates how and why this evolution has been almost invariably in a direction closer to Israel, and how this has caused unintended strains and contradictions that, at times, have confused allies, aided enemies, and left many Americans unsure about U.S. policy. Of great interest to scholars, students, and all those interested in U.S. foreign policy, Fallen Pillars is a well-researched, highly readable, and coherent account of American influence in one of the most complex conflicts of our time.

Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy Towards Palestine and Israel Since 1945

Neff, Donald

Politics & Government

This authoritative reference work describes in detail the more than 400 Palestinian villages that were destroyed or depopulated by Israel in 1948. Little of these once-thriving communities remains: not only have they been erased from the Palestinian landscape, their very names have been removed from contemporary Israeli maps. But to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in their diaspora, these villages were home, and continue to be poignantly powerful symbols of their personal and national identity.

All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948

This book, first printed in hardcopy in 1993 and reprinted in paperback in 2006, was written by the late German historian Alexander Scholch.  Palestine in Transformation is indispensable for understanding the history of Palestine in the decades following the introudction of the Ottoman Tanzimat (reforms).  Based on archival and consular materials, the studies show the extent to which the processes of modernization and integration into the world economic system had already begun in the crucial period before the first wave of Jewish immigration. The work examines nineteenth-century European interest in the "Holy Land" and how competing interests led to the economic penetration of the southern and eastern periphery of the Mediterranean, and to the presence of British, French, Prussian, and Russian consuls in Palestine.  In light of European penetration, the economic development of Palestine is discussed, focusing both on agrarian and industrial advances. The author goes on to describe the rivalries among the various local lords during the mid-nineteenth century and the eventual integration of these local leaderships into the administrative structures of the Tanzimat.  The text is enhanced and clarified by fifty-one tables and eight maps. Through its close examination of social, economic, and political developments in Palestine during the late Ottoman period, Palestine in Transformation, 1856-1882 provides an important background to the roots of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict essential for students and scholars of the Middle East.

Palestine in Transformation, 1856-1882: Studies in Social, Economic and Political Development

Alexander Scholch

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