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Hamas
When the radical Islamist group Hamas was elected to lead Palestine in 2006, the Western world was shocked. How had the majority of Palestinians come to support an extremist organization and how would the group’s new political power affect the larger Israel/Palestine conflict? Italian journalist and historian Paola Caridi offers a clear-eyed account of how the conditions in this war-torn region led to the rise of Hamas and an unbiased look at the complex feelings that Palestinians have toward getting behind a government that supports violent resistance. By breaking from the sensationalist journalism surrounding the elections, Caridi is able to tell the story of a movement caught between th...
Jerusalem Without God
Jerusalem without God leads the reader through the streets, malls, suburbs, traffic jams, and squares of Jerusalem's present moment, into the daily lives of the men and women who inhabit it. Caridi brings contemporary Jerusalem alive by describing it as a place of sights and senses, sounds and smells, but she also shows us a city riven by the harsh asymmetry of power and control embodied in its lines, limits, walls, and borders. She explores a cruel city, where Israeli and Palestinian civilians sometimes spend hours in the same supermarkets, only to return to the confines of their respective districts, invisible to each other.
Israel/Palestine
In Israel/Palestine, Reinhart traces the development of the Security Barrier and Israel’s new doctrine of "disengagement," launched in response to a looming Palestinian-majority population. Examining the official record of recent diplomacy, including United States–brokered accords and talks at Camp David, Oslo, and Taba, Reinhart explores the fundamental power imbalances between the negotiating parties and identifies Israel’s strategy of creating facts on the ground to define and complicate the terms of any future settlement. In this indispensable primer, Reinhart’s searing insight illuminates the current conflict and suggests a path toward change.
Hamas
Branded as terrorist by Israel and the West, Hamas won an overwhelming electoral victory in January 2006. This book charts the origins of Hamas among the Muslim Brotherhood, details the influence of its exiled leadership in Syria and elsewhere, and sets out its internal structure and political objectives.
Il volo di Nura
Nura vive a Gerusalemme, in una casa dal grande cortile, con mamma, fratelli, nonno e... Abu Elias, uno zio scorbutico e solitario, dai grandi baffi ben curati che incutono soggezione: le ricordano le lettere arabe, quelle che fa tanta fatica a leggere e scrivere. Abu Elias è un famoso cantastorie. Nura si ferma spesso ad ascoltarlo, restando quasi ipnotizzata da quei grandi baffi che vanno su e giù, su e giù, seguendo i movimenti delle labbra... Una notte, la bambina viene svegliata da un lieve fruscio, accompagnato da una strana sensazione sul viso, come di... peli! Un grande Baffo è comparso nella sua stanza. È uno dei baffi di Abu Elias! Comincia un viaggio meraviglioso, nel cuore d...
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Life in a Country Album
Winner, 2020 Palestine Book Award Finalist, 2019 Foreword Indies Award From migrations to pop culture, loss to la dérive, Life in a Country Album is a soundtrack of the global cultural landscape—borders and citizenship, hybrid identities and home, freedom and pleasure. It’s a vast and moving look at the world, at what home means, and the ways we coexist in an increasingly divided world. These poems are about the dialects of the heart—those we are incapable of parting from, and those that are largely forgotten. Life in a Country Album is a vital book for our times. With this beautiful, epic collection, Nathalie Handal affirms herself as one of our most diverse and important contemporary poets.
Gerusalemme
Gerusalemme: un luogo unico dove le vite si sfiorano e si incrociano senza sapere di avere in comune molto più di quanto si pensi. Tutto parte da casa Dajani, nel cuore del quartiere Musrara. Una villa costruita dal commerciante palestinese Tawfik e poi abbandonata quando la Storia, quella con S maiuscola, è passata come un terremoto sulla città. Chi ha vissuto a casa Dajani dopo la fuga dei proprietari? E come si è trasformato il piccolo quartiere nel corso di quasi un secolo? Sarah e Samira, due ragazze della stessa età, un giorno si incontrano nel salone di un parrucchiere nella Città Vecchia. Parlano in ebraico, perché Sarah l’arabo non lo conosce. E alla fine scoprono che la casa in cui ora abita Sarah una volta apparteneva alla famiglia di Samira. Una casa che Samira non ha mai visto, e di cui Sara non conosce la storia. Inanellando sette racconti e facendo incrociare i suoi protagonisti, Paola Caridi accompagna i lettori di ogni età lungo le strade di Gerusalemme, rivelandola in tutto il suo fascino e scoprendone le ferite. Ferite che impediscono di scrivere una storia condivisa, ma che possono aiutare a capire la storia dell’Altro.
Migration at the End of Empire
How has migration shaped Mediterranean history? And what role did conflicting temporalities and the politics of departure play in the age of decolonisation? Using a microhistorical approach, Migration at the End of Empire explores the experiences of over 55,000 Italian subjects in Egypt during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Before 1937, Ottoman-era legal regimes fostered the coupling of nationalism and imperialism among Italians in Egypt, particularly as the fascist government sought to revive the myth of Mare Nostrum. With decolonisation, however, Italians began abandoning Egypt en masse. By 1960, over 40,000 had deserted Egypt; some as 'emigrants,' others as 'repatriates,'and still others as 'national refugees.' The departed community became an emblem around which political actors in post-colonial Italy and Egypt forged new ties. Anticipated, actual, and remembered departures of Italians from Egypt are at the heart of this book's ambition to rethink European and Mediterranean periodisation.
The Story of Hurry
After a major invasion of the Gaza Strip in late 2008, twenty-year-old Mahmoud Barghout decided to become a zookeeper. He saw that the children around him were exhausted by war, and so to provide respite, he set up the Happy Land Zoo. But the war made feeding and caring for the animals impossible—they died of thirst, hunger, or injury—and replacing them meant finding large sums of money and overcoming the blockade or the risk of bringing them in through tunnels connecting the Strip to Egypt. So Mr. Barghout came up with a solution for at least one animal: he dyed two local white donkeys with dark stripes, to create zebras, which visiting children could touch and even ride. The Story of Hurry recounts the tale of these “made in Gaza” zebras, of an inventive zookeeper just like Mr. Barghout, and of the wondrous capacity of the imagination of children. Written by Emma Williams, together with thought-provoking mixed-media illustrations by Ibrahim Quraishi, this picture book for inquisitive children aged 3 to 103 includes an historical note for parents, teachers, and librarians.
