In a rehabilitation center for disabled children, twelve-year-old Nora says she loves the color pink and chewing gum and explains that the wheels of her wheelchair are like her legs. Eleven-year-old Mohammad describes how his house was...
Arab-Israeli conflict
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Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary: -
Author:Scott-Baumann, MichaelSummary:An accessible, balanced chronicle of how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed over the past century. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced listen. The ongoing...
- Author:Tolan, SandySummary:
The tale of friendship between two people, one Israeli and one Palestinian, that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East. "Makes an incredibly complicated topic comprehensible."— School Library Journal In 1967, a...
- Author:Dershowitz, Alan M.Summary:
All reasonable people, Dershowitz argues, know what a final peace settlement will look like: two states, based on Israeli withdrawals from Gaza and most of the West Bank; a symbolic recognition by Israel of the rights of Palestinian...
- Author:Mead, Walter RussellSummary:
In this bold examination of the Israeli-American relationship, Walter Russell Mead demolishes the myths that both pro-Zionists and anti-Zionists have fostered over the years. He makes clear that Zionism has always been a divisive...
- Author:Katz, YaakovSummary:
The never-before-told inside story of how Israel stopped Syria from becoming a global nuclear nightmare--and its far-reaching implications. On September 6, 2007, shortly after midnight, Israeli fighters advanced on Deir ez-Zour in Syria...
- Author:Faraj, RezeqSummary:
Voici un livre incontournable pour comprendre la Palestine et ce qu’on omet généralement de nous dire sur le conflit israélo-palestinien. PALESTINE : Le refus de disparaître est un éloquent plaidoyer en faveur de l’instauration d’une...
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Author:Abulhawa, SusanSummary:Palestine, 1941. In the small village of Ein Hod a father leads a procession of his family and workers through the olive groves. As they move through the trees the green fruits drop onto the orchard floor; the ancient cycle of the...
- Author:Indyk, MartinSummary:
A perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger's diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in their attempts to broker peace...
- Author:Abusalim, JehadSummary:
Gaza, home to two million people, continues to face suffocating conditions imposed by Israel. This distinctive anthology imagines what the future of Gaza could be, while reaffirming the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity,...
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Author:Halevi, Yossi KleinSummary:Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing...
- Author:El Farrah El Kenz, SuzanneSummary:
Suzanne El Farrah El Kenz relate dans ce récit émouvant, mené dans une langue alerte et sobre, l’histoire de son exil et, notamment, le retour avec son fils vers une certaine maison du Néguev située aux proches limites de Ghazza. C’est...
- Author:Editors, Charles RiverSummary:
On May 14, 1948, the British Mandate officially expired. That same day, the Jewish National Council issued the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel. About 10 minutes later, President Truman officially recognized the...
- Author:Gordis, DanielSummary:
The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from Daniel Gordis, "one of the most respected Israel analysts" (The Forward) living and writing in Jerusalem. Israel is a tiny...
- Author:Gordis, DanielSummary:
Winner of the Rabbi Sacks Book Prize A nuanced examination of the Israel's past, present, and future, after reaching its seventy-fifth anniversary and enduring its most challenging year ever, from the two-time National Jewish Book...
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Author:Garfinkel, JonathanSummary:During the Six Day War, an Israeli general found an abandoned house and made it his home. Forty years later, the general, along with his imaginative and distant son Alex, live in peaceful solitude. When a Palestinian writer shows up...
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Author:McKay, Sharon E.Summary:Sam, an Israeli teen whose leg may have to be amputated, and Yusuf, a Palestinian teen who has lost his left eye, find themselves uneasy roommates in a Jerusalem hospital. One night, the boys decide to slip away while the nurses aren’t...
- Author:Thrall, NathanSummary:
Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day. Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited...
