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Book recommendations

• "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy" by Nathan Thrall
• "We Could Have Been Friends My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir" by Raja Shehadeh
• "People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present" by Dara Thorn"
• "Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics" by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick
• "My Promised Land: The Promise and Tragedy of Israel" by Ari Shavit
• "Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi
• "How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less" by Sarah Glidden
• "How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says about Race in America" by Karen Brodkin
• "The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine" by Ben Ehrenreich
• "Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement" by Angela Davis
• "Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel 1917-2017" by Ian Black
• "Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East" by Michael B. Oren
• "The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine" by Michael Scott-Baumann
• "When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History" by Massoud Hayoun
• "The Question of Palestine" by Edward W. Said
• "I Saw Ramallah" by Mourid Barghouti
• "On Palestine" by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé
• "Ten Myths About Israel" by Ilan Pappé
• "Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn" by Daniel Gordis
• "On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice" by Jewish Voice for Peace
• "Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation" edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman
• "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World" by Avi Shlaim

• "Minor Detail" by Adania Shibli translated by Elisabeth Jaquette
• "All the Rivers" by Dorit Rabinyan
• "Against the Loveless World" by Susan Abulhawa
• "Mother of Strangers" by Suad Amiry
• "To the End of the Land" by David Grossman
• "Mornings in Jenin" by Susan Abulhawa
• "Salt Houses" by Hala Alyan
• "Wild Thorns" by Sahar Khalifeh, translated by Elizabeth Fernea and Trevor Le Gassick
• "Murder on a Kibbutz" by Batya Gur
• "One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset" by Shimon Adaf
• "All Backs Were Turned" by Marek Hlasko, translated by Tomasz Mirkowicz