Resources For Independent Study

Hello All,

My buddy Tim has done it again! This time he has sent me a list of books and videos, building on the list of website references he sent to me the other day.

He has sent two lists, a short one and a long one. Have at 'er folks, if you wish....

Just passing along a great resource!

DB

Recommended Readings (short list):

• Naseer Aruri, Dishonest Broker: America’s Role in Israel and Palestine (South End Press, 2003).

• Naseer Aruri, ed., Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return (Pluto Press, 2001).

• Naim Stifan Ateek, Justice and Only Justice (Orbis Books, 1987).

• Meron Benvenisti, Sacred Landscapes: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948 (University of California Press, 2000).

• Gary Burge, Whose Land? Whose Promise? What Christians are Not Being Told about Israel and the Palestinians (The Pilgrim Press, 2003).

• Roane Carey and Jonathan Shainin, eds., The Other Israelis: Voices of Refusal and Dissent (New Press 2002).

• Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers (Chosen Books, 1984).

• Noam Chomsky, Middle East Illusions (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003)

• Marc Ellis, Out of the Ashes (Pluto Press, 2002).

• Amira Hass, Drinking the Sea at Gaza (Henry Holt, 1998).

• Rashid Khalidi, Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East (Beacon Press, 2004).

• Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (Columbia University Press, 1997).

• Ilan Pappe, History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

• Mitri Raheb, I Am a Palestinian Christian (Fortress Press, 1995).

• Mitri Raheb, Bethlehem Besieged (Fortress Press, 2004).

• Tanya Reinhart, Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 (Seven Stories Press, 2002).

• Edward Said, End of the Peace Process (Pantheon, 2000).

• Edward W. Said, The Question of Palestine (Vintage Books, 1980, 1992).

• Avi Shlaim, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (Penguin Books, 2000).

• Donald E. Wagner, Anxious for Armageddon: A Call to Partnership for Middle Eastern and Western Churches (Herald Press, 1995).

Recommended Readings (long list):

• Lama Abu-Odeh, “The Case for Binationalism” (Boston Review, 26/6).

• Alternative Tourism Group, Palestine & Palestinians, (ATG, 2005)

• Naseer Aruri, Dishonest Broker: America’s Role in Israel and Palestine (South End Press, 2003).

• Naseer Aruri, ed., Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return (Pluto Press, 2001).

• Susan Atallah and Toine van Teeffelen, eds., The Wall Cannot Stop Our Stories: Diaries from Palestine 2000-2004 (Terra Sancta School for Girls, Sisters of St. Joseph, 2004).

• Susan Atallah and Toine van Teeffelen, eds. Your Stories Are My Stories: A Palestinian Oral History Project (Arab Educational Institute, 2001).

• Naim Stifan Ateek, Justice and Only Justice (Orbis Books, 1987).

• Naim Stifan Ateek, Marc Ellis, and Rosemary Ruether, eds., Faith and the Intifada (Orbis Books, 1992).

• Meron Benvenisti, Sacred Landscapes: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948 (University of California Press, 2000).

• Gary Burge, Whose Land? Whose Promise? What Christians are Not Being Told about Israel and the Palestinians (The Pilgrim Press, 2003).

• Roane Carey, ed., The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid (Verso 2001).

• Roane Carey and Jonathan Shainin, eds., The Other Israelis: Voices of Refusal and Dissent (New Press 2002).

• Elias Chacour, We Belong to the Land (Harper Collins, 1990).

• Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers (Chosen Books, 1984).

• Noam Chomsky, Middle East Illusions (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003)

• Noam Chomsky, Fateful Triangle (South End Press, updated edition 1999).

• Uri Davis, Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within (Zed Books, 2004).

• Marc Ellis, Out of the Ashes (Pluto Press, 2002).

• Marc Ellis, Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation (Orbis Books, 1987).

• LeRoy Friesen, Mennonite Witness in the Middle East: A Missiological Introduction (Mennonite Board of Missions, 1992).

• Jeff Halper, Obstacles to Peace: A Re-Framing of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (PalMap, 2003).

• Amira Hass, Drinking the Sea at Gaza (Henry Holt, 1998).

• Amira Hass, Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land (MIT Press, 2003).

• Tony Judt, “Israel: The Alternative” (New York Review of Books, 50/16, 23 October 2003).

• Rashid Khalidi, Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East (Beacon Press, 2004).

• Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (Columbia University Press, 1997).

• Walid Khalidi (ed.), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992).

• Yehezkel Lein, et al, Land Grab: Israel’s Settlement Policy in the West Bank (B’Tselem, May, 2002).

• Nur Masalha, Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem (Pluto Press, 2003).

• Nur Masalha, Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of “Transfer” in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948 (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992).

• Donald Neff, Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy towards Palestine and Israel since 1945 (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1995).

• Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network (PENGON), Stop The Wall in Palestine: Facts Testimonies, Analysis, and Call to Action (PENGON, 2003).

• Ilan Pappe, History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

• Michael Prior, ed., Speaking the Truth About Zionism and Israel (Melisende, 2004).

• Rosemary Radford and Herman Ruether, The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Harper & Row, 1989).

• Mitri Raheb, I Am a Palestinian Christian (Fortress Press, 1995).

• Mitri Raheb, Bethlehem Besieged (Fortress Press, 2004).

• Tanya Reinhart, Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 (Seven Stories Press, 2002).

• Edward Said, End of the Peace Process (Pantheon, 2000).

• Edward W. Said, Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process (Vintage, 1995).

• Edward W. Said, The Question of Palestine (Vintage Books, 1980, 1992).

• Raja Shehadeh, When the Bulbul Stopped Singing (Profile Books, 2003).

• Avi Shlaim, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (Penguin Books, 2000).

• Nancy Stohlman and Laurieann Aladin, eds., Live from Palestine: International and Palestinian Direct Action against the Israeli Occupation (South End Press, 2003).

• Donald E. Wagner, Anxious for Armageddon: A Call to Partnership for Middle Eastern and Western Churches (Herald Press, 1995).

• Donald E. Wagner, Dying in the Land of Promise: Palestine and Palestinian Christianity from Pentecost to 2000 (Melisende, 2003).

• Alain and Sonia Weaver, Salt and Sign: Mennonite Central Committee in Palestine, 1949-1999 (MCC 1999).



Recommended Videos

• Stuck with the truth (Canadian Friends of Sabeel, 2002). Palestinian Christians speak of the reality of Israeli occupation. Available from all MCC offices.

• Walking the path Jesus walked (MCC, 2002). Hear Christians from Syria, Palestine, and Egypt share their faith, and learn about the enduring, vibrant witness of the historic Christian churches in the Middle East.

• The Dividing wall (MCC, 2004). Features Palestinians whose lives have been devastated by Israel’s separation barriers and highlights the voices of Palestinians and Israelis who work for a future of bridges instead of walls.

• Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land (Media Education Foundation, 2004). Provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

• Children of the Nakba (MCC, 2005)…


MCC Resources for Further Study

• Middle East Resource Box for Children. Produced by MCC. One part of the box presents the West Bank, with stories and photos of present-day Palestinian children. Also includes a curriculum on Iraq.

• “A Middle East Reader” is a booklet produced by MCC which gives basic information on the Middle East, its religions, major political players and conflicts.

• “Sisters, Friends—Middle East Reader on Women” is a booklet produced by MCC that introduces Middle Eastern women with a kaleidoscope of stories. The stories written, by MCC women, describe their encounters with Middle Eastern women, women much like themselves who have become their sisters and friends.

• “Country Profile: Occupied Palestinian Territories.” A Common Place. September/October 2004 (including the Hello publication for children).

• “Walling Off the Future for Palestinians and Israelis.” MCC Peace Office Newsletter, 34(3). July-September 2004.

• “Christian Zionism and Peace in the Holy Land.” MCC Peace Office Newsletter, 35(3). July-September 2005.

• Alain Epp Weaver, “Constantinianism, Zionism, Diaspora: Toward a Theology of Exile and Return” (MCC Occasional Paper #28, 2002).

• Alain Epp Weaver and Sonia Weaver, Salt and Sign: Mennonite Central Committee in Palestine, 1949-1999 (MCC, 1999).

• Sonia K. Weaver, What Is Palestine / Israel: Answers to Common Questions (MCC, 2004).

• Video: “Walking the Path Jesus Walked” (MCC, 2002). See above.

• Video: “Dividing Wall” (MCC, 2004). See above.

• Video: “Children of the Nakba” (MCC, 2005). See above.