{"id":46591,"count":18,"description":"Here you can find the best books on Palestine recommended by authors, academics and activists\u2014Palestinian, Jewish, Israeli and other.\r\n\r\nPalestine is a stateless country. Since the 1948 Nakbah, or \u2018catastrophe\u2019, when the state of Israel<\/a> was created, the Palestinians have been subject to internal or external exile. The war of 1967 only deepened the Palestinians\u2019 travails, with the annexation the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem by Israel. Much has been promised them in the meantime but, notwithstanding the creation of the Palestinian Authority as a result of the 1993-5 Oslo Accords, over seventy years on from the original Nakbah, the political outlook for the Palestinian people has never looked less promising. The travails of the Palestinians may not have produced any significant political results, but it has produced a culture and a literature and, as Robin Yassin-Kassab explains, it has reinforced an identity<\/a>.\r\n\r\nElsewhere the Palestinian writer and activist, Susan Abulhawa chooses the best Palestianian writing<\/a>, while the Israeli playwright Alon Hilu looks at Israel and Palestine in art<\/a>. The famous Palestinian writer, Raja Shehadeh, chooses his best books on Palestine<\/a>, focusing on work that highlights the plight of the Palestinian people over the past 100 years, but also on the beauty and diversity of the natural environment and the Palestinian people.\r\n\r\nElsewhere, the Israel-based British journalist, Jonathan Cook, looks at the experience of the Palestinians in Israel<\/a>, their identity and their relationship to the wider Palestinian diaspora and Carlos Fraenkel reflects on his time teaching in a Palestinian university and ponders whether philosophy can help to save the Middle East<\/a> and, indeed, the rest of the world. And the Israeli academic Gabriel Piterberg talks about Zionism and anti-Zionism<\/a> and his own gradual rejection of the former.\r\n\r\nRelated: Books by Edward Said on Five Books<\/em><\/a>","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/world\/asia\/middle-east\/palestine\/","name":"Palestine","slug":"palestine","taxonomy":"category","parent":5648,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/46591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5648"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=46591"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=46591"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=46591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}