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"Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of intractable conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to take to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend. Theirs is a life in which children from both sides of the wall throw stones at one another. But their worlds shift irreparably when ten-year-old old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet meant to quell unruly...
Publisher
Keshet Broadcasting Ltd. and Dori Media Paran Ltd
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Fall 2008, Link TV presented the U.S. broadcast premiere of the controversial hit Israeli comedy series Arab Labor (Avoda Aravit). Created by Sayed Kashua, a 32-year-old Israeli-born Palestinian journalist, Arab Labor (translated from the Hebrew "Avoda Aravit" which colloquially implies "shoddy or second-rate work") focuses on Amjad, a Palestinian journalist and Israeli citizen in search of his identity as he seeks high status in the society into...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A humorous, heartbreaking film that explores life among the Israeli Arab community, shot largely in homes and places in which Elia Suleiman's family once lived. Inspired by his father's diaries, letters his mother sent to family members who had fled the Israeli occupation, and the director's own recollections, the film recounts the saga of the filmmaker's family in subtly hilarious vignettes.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xxix, 568 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Description
In this text Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal offer an authoritative account of the history of the Palestinian people from their modern origins to the Oslo peace process and beyond. Palestinians struggled to create themselves as a people from the first revolt of the Arabs in Palestine in 1834 through the British Mandate to the impact of Zionism and the founding of Israel. Their relationship with the Jewish people and the State of Israel has been...
Author
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"In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the househe was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family left fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and...
Author
Publisher
Tablo Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 29 cm
Description
When Saamidah, a young Palestinian refugee, is asked by her friends what her name means, she isn't quite sure what to say. She turns to her baba for some answers - but what she gets is an adventure beyond her wildest dreams. Join Saamidah on a lyrical journey, with dazzling illustrations, that brings to life her beloved homeland and celebrates the richness of her cultural heritage and the determination to return.
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
428 pages ; 19 cm
Description
"Long exiled in New York, Palestinian ex-pat Adam Dannoun thought he knew himself. But an encounter with Blind Mahmoud, a father figure from his childhood, changes everything. As he investigates exactly what occurred in 1948 in Lydda, the city of his birth, he gathers stories that speak to his people's bravery, ingenuity, and resolve in the face of unimaginable hardship."--Amazon.com.
10) Salt houses
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
312 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
"From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home ... On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted...
11) Amreeka
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Muna Farah, a Palestinian single mom, struggles to maintain her optimistic spirit in the daily grind of intimidating West Bank checkpoints, the constant nagging of a controlling mother, and the haunting shadows of a failed marriage. Everything changes one day when she receives a letter informing her that her family has been granted a U.S. green card.
12) Something more
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Trying to hide her autism diagnosis, fifteen-year-old Palestinian-Canadian girl Jessie creates a list of goals to help navigate her first year of high school but is forced to go off script when two very different boys steal her heart.
13) Ajami
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Shakespearian in its scope and themes; revenge, loyalty, hope and despair, draws us into the lives of two brothers fearing assassination; a young refugee working illegally to cover his mother's medical expenses; a cop obsessed with finding his missing brother. Through this dramatic collision of different worlds, we witness cultural and religious tensions simmering beneath the surface and the tragic consequences of enemies living as neighbors.
14) Only human
Publisher
Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Leni comes home to introduce her fiance Rafi to her idiosyncratic Jewish family, everything goes smoothly until the lovers belatedly reveal that Rafi is Palestinian.
Author
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"It's April 1948, and war hangs over Jaffa. One minute seven-year-old Salim is dreaming of taking his first harvest from the family's orange tree; the next he is swept away into a life of exile and rage. Seeking a new beginning in swinging-Sixties London, Salim finds an unexpected love with Jude, a troubled Jewish girl struggling with her own devastating family legacy. The bond between them flourishes in the freedom of the age, bringing the promise...
16) Omar
Publisher
Adopt Films
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. When Omar is captured after a deadly act of resistance, he falls into a cat-and-mouse game with the military police. Suspicion and betrayal jeopardize his longtime trust with his childhood friends, but it's soon evident that everything he does is for his love of Nadia.
17) Jaffa
Series
Film Movement volume 8, film 6
Publisher
Filmmovement.com
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col., 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In the heart of Jaffa, Reuven's garage is a family business. His daughter Mali and his son Meir, as well as Toufik, a young Palestinian, work there. No one suspects that Mali and Toufik have been in love for years. As the two lovers are secretly making their wedding arrangements, tension builds between Meir and Toufik"--imdb.com.
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 274 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"What would you do if you grew up repeatedly seeing your home raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, if just for a moment, to imagine this was your life. How would you want the world to react?" Ahed Tamimi's father was born in 1967, the year that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank began, and every aspect of their family's life has been touched by it. One of Ahed's earliest memories is visiting her father in prison,...
19) The gatekeepers
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Features interviews with surviving former heads of Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xiv, 264 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Description
The former president draws on his understanding of Middle East history and his personal relationships with regional leaders to share an assessment of what he believes is necessary to bring lasting peace to Israel while preserving Palestinian dignity.
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