Palestinian authors

Love poems by Writers of Arab Heritage We Call to the Eye and to the Night is an amalgam of eminent poets — Hayan Charara, Leila Chatti, Nathalie Handal, Fady...

One Woman's Life in a Nation at Odds with Its Ideals A profound and poignant exploration of one woman's life in a nation at odds with its ideals. Afaf Rahman,...

Notes from the Genocide in Gaza A powerful eyewitness account of the genocide in Gaza by an extraordinary young writer and general physician Five days before 7 October 2023 a young...

A moving account of life in Palestine in the wake of the events of October 7th. It was a sleepless night full of tears and fear . . . I...

A family memoir that retraces the love story between the author's Palestinian father and Italian mother. WINNER OF THE FOOTNOTE X COUNTERPOINTS WRITING PRIZE 2023-24 'Vivid, compassionate, captivating' Elif Shafak'A...

Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture ‘A city so rich in trees it looks like a cloth of brocade spread out upon the land.’Shamsaddin al-Dimashqi, geographer (1256–1327) This was Gaza....

An encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family ‘What is the task but to find my way back to the unfragmentation of the world as we knew it; to collect the uncollected,...

The Voices of Gaza's Youth A moving, immersive, and humanising essay collection charting the daily lives, struggles, and dreams of young people in Gaza. 'This book is a jailbreak and...

A Diary of Resilience The Eyes of Gaza offers an intimate glimpse through the eyes of 22-year-old Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad, capturing the experience of living through the first 45 days...

A Collection By the People; Unveiling Their Stories and Emotions From the Year That Has Been As the year 2023 came to an end, and wistfulness filled the air with...

A memoir that combines political and economic commentary with personal and national history. Mohammad Tarbush was born in British Mandate Palestine. As an infant, he and his family were forced...

Born in Rafah, raised in Gaza, subjected both to Israeli bombs and to Islamist tyranny, and in the face of prison, death threats, abuse, misogyny, violence, and repression, Asmaa Alghoul...

A Diary of Ramallah under Siege A diary of life under siege in Palestine, from the Orwell-prize winning and National Book Award-longlisted author and human rights activist 'Palestine's greatest prose...

Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home After the 1993 Oslo Accords, a handful of Palestinians were allowed to return to their hometowns in Israel. Fida Jiryis and her...

In 1966, the Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti, then twenty-two, left his country to return to university in Cairo. A year later came the Six Day War and Barghouti, like many...

Through seventeen powerful testimonies, Syrian-Palestinian poet Ramy Al-Asheq's Ever SInce I Did Not Die is a poignant autobiographical journey that vividly depicts what it means to live through war. The...

A Family Story from Gaza The story of a family over the past 100 years, starting in Palestine under British rule and ending in Redland Bay in Queensland. Samah Sabawi...

A Palestinian prisoner's memoir of thirty years' captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts himThis is the story of a wall that somehow chose me...

"One of the finest, most eloquent and painfully honest memoirs of the Palestinian exile and displacement."–New Statesman An intimate memoir of the 1948 Nakba, exile and the dispossession of Palestinian...

'One minute you're a 15-year-old girl who loves Netflix and music and the next minute you're looked at as maybe ISIS.' We now have a generation – Muslim and non-Muslim...

Stories on Race and Identity An anthology that aims to smash the stereotypes of Arabs in Australia that too often proliferate in mainstream media. Although there are 22 separate Arab...

A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights. Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he...

A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home 'Refugees are like seeds that scatter in the wind, and land in different soils that become their reluctant homes' my mother once told me. As...

My Story is Palestine What does freedom look like from inside an Israeli prison? The walls of the cell are etched with the names of the prisoners who came before....

Raja Shehadeh reflects on ageing, failure, the occupation, and the changing face of Ramallah. In Going Home, Orwell Prize winning author Raja Shehadeh travels Ramallah and records the changing face...

A Young Readers Edition of We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders An empowering young readers edition of We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders, the memoir by Women’s March...