Recommended Reading

Foundational historical texts

• The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

Personal narratives

• Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
• I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti

Recent books

• One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Winner, 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction)
• Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Peter Beinart
• Tracing Homelands: Israel, Palestine, and the Claims of Belonging (memoir) by Linda Dittmar

Fiction

• Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
• The Book of Ramallah edited by Atef Abu Saif

Poetry

• Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems by Mahmoud Darwish
• Forest of Noise by Mosab Abu Toha