Palestinian authors

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...

Nestled among the southern streets and river walls of Cork City is the award-winning Café Izz, run by beloved couple Izz and Eman Alkarajeh. Serving top-quality Palestinian food, including the...

One of Lit Hub's most Anticipated Poetry Books ! Like Mandelstam, Akhmatova, and Vallejo, Gazan poet Nasser Rabah embodies the magnificent possibilities of the human spirit and imagination under extreme...

A love letter to Palestinian ancestors, their descendants, and their land, to all anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles, to a history that will never be forgotten, and to a future in...

The Case for a Single Democratic State in Palestine Ali Abunimah provides an effective strategy for advancing the struggle for a just, single-state solution in Palestine. In this essential work,...

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...

Through the voices of those who live it, Beyond the Wall unveils the everyday realities of occupation, resilience, and the fight for dignity in Palestine. Their voices come from Bethlehem and...

This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvelous poetry and deeply human writing about literature, teaching, politics, and family....

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....

One State for Israel and Palestine A timely collection on the most pressing global issue of our time. After Zionism brings together some of the world's leading thinkers on the most...

A unique and extraordinary collection, Desert Songs of the Night presents some of the finest poetry and prose by Arab writers, from the Arab East to Andalusia, over the last...

Translated by Ruth Padel Diaries 'A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland...

And The Politics Of Appeal Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal an ode to the steadfastness of a nation. Palestine is a microcosm...

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,...

'A compelling call for identity and justice.' ANTHONY LEWISA groundbreaking account of the history of Palestine by one of the world's most eloquent scholars of the Middle East, featuring a...

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...

Translated by Sinan Antoon Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025, this critically acclaimed Arabic novel invites English readers into the complex lives of Palestinians living in Israel. What if...

For readers of Pachinko and Queenie, a funny, sexy, and heart-wrenching literary debut that explores exile, ambition, and hope across three generations of Palestinian American women. Arabella gets an unexpected...

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...

Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials An elegy to memory: what is memorialised, what is not, and why Forgotten is a search for hidden or neglected memorials and...

‘Powerful, capacious and profound’ OCEAN VUONG ‘A book you won’t soon forget’ ILYA KAMINSKY ‘Astonishing’ TERRANCE HAYES LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR...

Translated by Barbara Romaine A sardonic, thrilling fable about collective memory and the many ways it can be saved or subverted. Four young, Palestinian journalists at a Jordanian newspaper are...

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 Child in Palestine collects the work of one of the Arab world's greatest cartoonists, Naji al-Ali, known as 'the Palestinian Malcolm X'. Discovered in the 1950s, he was revered...

From the author of Orientalism, a searching examination of western culture and the roots of imperialism, now with a foreword by Hari Kunzru 'Readers accustomed to the precision and elegance of...

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...

An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction Thyme Travellers collects fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora’s best voices in speculative fiction. Speculative fiction as a genre invites a reconfiguring of reality, and...

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unravelling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags,...

From the organizers of the Palestine Festival of Literature, this anthology of essays connects Palestinian resistance with global freedom struggles against settler colonialism and calls on us to think more...

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 moving testament to the displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people. rock flight is a book-length poem that, over five chapters, follows a personal and historical narrative, to compose...

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...

Funny and touching, Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families - the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars - Palestinian immigrants...

A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as partners on the road to peace instead of genocide. Since the formation of the...

Background, Details, and Analysis A radical analysis of Palestinian resistance from one of their most influential voices. Revisit Ghassan Kanafani’s pivotal text in a new English edition. Kanafani presents a...

The Trinity of Fundamentals follows the story of 22-year-old Kan’an during his nine years of hiding from the occupation between 1982 and 1991. Driven by an unshakable commitment to the Palestinian...

In Rifqa, El-Kurd tightropes between statelessness and uncertainty, still one thing remains clear: "Jerusalem is ours! / The biggest punchline of all time." Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd's debut collection of...

Bethlehem is a celebration of Palestinian food and culture from one of the area’s most dynamic chefs and a portrait of one of the most storied cities in the world.    Franco-Palestinian...

A gem-like parable about Palestine, timely and prismaticNabila Yasmeen is in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that she keeps in pots because she can't bear...

Light in Gaza gathers a collective Palestinian vision of what a future Gaza could be. As global solidarity for Palestinian liberation grows, the desire for Gaza-centered texts makes this book...

Mural is a testimony to one of the most important and powerful poets of our age. Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last...

A definitive volume expanded and updated to do justice to the four decade career of one of the most important cultural and intellectual thinkers of the 21st century The renowned...

This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history. Starting with...