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The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty: The Husaynis, 1700–1948 is a 2010 history book written by Israeli historian Ilan Pappé and published by University of California Press. The book revolves around the Al-Husayni family of Jerusalem, which was a politically influential family in Palestine between the 18th and 20th century.
The Palestine Book Award is an annual literary award [1] presented by Middle East Monitor. [2] The award was inaugurated in 2012 to honor the best English -language books on the subject of Palestine.
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 is a 2020 book by Rashid Khalidi, in which the author describes the Zionist claim to Palestine in the century spanning 1917–2017 as late settler colonialism and an instrument of British and then later American imperialism, [1] doing so by focusing on a series of six major episodes the author ...
Nubar Hovsepian wrote in the Journal of Palestine Studies that the book is "overwhelming, but a must-read nevertheless". [2] Publishers Weekly highlighted the amount of documentation the book uses to support its content and wrote that "readers with fixed positions, either in agreement or disagreement with Finkelstein, will find much to engage with here".
The state of Israel was nevertheless founded under prime minister David Ben-Gurion on 14 May 1948 with the end of the British Mandate, winning immediate recognition from the US and Soviet Union ...
The book has been described as providing a vital perspective on Palestinian attempts to achieve independence and statehood. [1]In a review of Khalidi's The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, for Middle East Policy, Philip Wilcox praised the book calling it "Khalidi's brilliant inquiry into why Palestinians have failed to win a state of their own."
[1] [2] The book also contains hundreds of photographs, several maps, and appendices. [2] The book also traces the Hebraization of Palestinian place names. [1] As Ann M. Lesch notes, "In the Jerusalem district alone, twenty per cent of the 38 destroyed villages now have Hebrew names: Kasla became Kesalon; Sar'a is Tzor'a; Saris is Shoresh; Suba ...
Travels Through Cyprus, Syria, and Palestine; with a General History of the Levant. Vol. 1. Dublin: P. Byrne. Mariti, Giovanni (1792): Travels Through Cyprus, Syria, and Palestine; with a General History of the Levant. Translated from the Italian Printed for P. Byrne, Item notes: v. 1 The full text, google-books, Can download PDF. Pe P