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On War And Love - Fouad Elkoury
Summer 2006. Thirty-three days of war in Lebanon. A beloved woman wants to leave. This is a diary about war. A diary about love. A diary about love in a time of war.

A mix of pictures shot by Fouad Elkoury in Beirut in 1982 and in 2006, this intimate diary is a striking evocation of Lebanon, a country that has remained war-torn for more than twenty-five years.
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If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of and Anti-Zionist Jew - Mike Marqusee
If I Am Not For Myself is a passionate, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century. It traces the author's upbringing in 1960s Jewish-American surburbia, his anti-war and pro-Palestinian activism on the British left, and life as a Jew among Muslims in Pakistan, Morocco, and Britain. Interwoven with this are the experiences of his grandfather's life in Jewis...
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Let Me Stand Alone: the Journals of Rachel Corrie - Rachel Corrie
How do we find our way in the world? How do our actions affect others? What do we owe the rest of humanity? These are the timeless questions so eloquently posed by Rachel Corrie, a young American activist killed on March 16, 2003, as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian family's home in the Gaza Strip. She was twenty-three years old.


Let Me Stand Alone reveals Corrie's strikin...
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The War Of 33: Letters from Beruit - Big Noise Films
The War of 33 is an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon. A series of letters written by Hanady Salman – a mother living through the war in Beirut – carve a narrative arc through the intense and haunting images of conflict. She tells the stories of her family and the people she lives the war with – the refugees, the wounded, and the everyday...
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Palestine: The Special Edition - Edward Said (Introduction by) and Joe Sacco
In late 1991 and early 1992, Joe Sacco spent two months with Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, traveling and taking notes. Upon returning to the States, he started writing and drawing Palestine, which combined the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comic-book storytelling to explore this complex, emotionally weighty situation. It won lots of awards, and quite right too. It is a bri...
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War With No End - Ahdaf Soueif (Contributor), Haifa Zangana (Contributor), Tram Nguyen (Contributor), Hanif Kureishi (Contributor), John Berger (Contributor), Naomi Klein (Contributor), Phyllis Bennis (Contributor), Joe Sacco (Contributor), and Arundhati Roy (Contributor)
On October 7th 2001, US-led forces invaded Afghanistan, marking the start of George Bush and Tony Blair's "War on Terror." Six years on, where have the policies of Bush and Blair left us? Bringing together some of the finest contemporary writers, this wide-ranging anthology, from reportage and "faction" to fiction, explores the impact of this "long war" throughout the world, from Palestine to Iraq, Abu Ghrai...
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Overcoming Zionism: Creating A Single Democratic State In Israel/Palestine - Joel Kovel
Joel Kovel argues that the inner contradictions of Zionism have led Israel to a "state-sponsored racism" fully as incorrigible as that of apartheid South Africa and deserving of the same resolution. He argues that only a path toward single-state secular democracy can provide the justice essential to healing the wounds of the Middle East.

Kovel is well-known as a writer on the Middle East conflict. In ...
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The Occupation: War And Resistance In Iraq - Patrick Cockburn
In March 2003, Patrick Cockburn traveled secretly to Iraq just before the invasion, and has covered the war from Baghdad ever since. In The Occupation, Cockburn describes the fighting on the ground as Saddam's armies collapsed, the looting of Baghdad, the failure of the US occupation, the springs of the resistance and how it turned into a full scale uprising. Explaining how the three main Iraqi commun...
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A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada And Nonviolent Resistance - Jimmy Carter (Introduction by) and Mary Elizabeth King
In A Quiet Revolution, renowned civil rights activist Mary Elizabeth King questions the prevailing wisdom that the first Palestinian Intifada was defined by violence. She argues that initially, the uprising was characterized by a massive nonviolent social mobilization, rooted in popular committees often steered by women. These committees adopted strategies that began to lead to political results &mdas...
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Colors From Palestine Wall Calendar 2008 - Resistance Art (Editor)
This year's calendar celebrates the life, and work, of Naji Al-Ali. In a simple and forceful way, Naji cuts though all lies and disguises and brings the truth to the masses. Naji is perhaps best known as the creator of the character Handala, who is depicted as a ten-year old boy and appeared for the first time in Al-Siyasa newspaper in Kuwait in 1969. The figure turned his back to the viewer from the ...
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