
Library
APAN was gifted over 800 books on Palestine, Israel and the Middle East, and we are excited to have just established a library with this amazing resource. You can view the APAN online catalogue which has some wonderful titles you could order into your local library. To borrow books, or to find out more – email [email protected]
The Book Room
APAN is excited to have worked with award winning writer Samah Sabawi on a webinar series hosting progressive authors whose works have contributed to decolonizing the Australian and Palestinian literature landscape.
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Best selling novelist Susan Abulhawa at the launch of the Book Room
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Book Reviews
We are grateful to APAN volunteers for reviewing books on Palestine – click here to access them all, or see below for the most recent reviews.
Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has three arms: the commercial, the cultural and the academic. The dedicated focus of the book is the latter. Before discussing Riemer’s book it is important to outline the key points of the larger campaign: ‘The BDS movement was launched by 170 Palestinian unions, refugee networks, women’s organisations, […]
Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir
The translator of this beautiful book calls it a memoir. The author’s son, Àthar, says it is an autobiography. It seems both a meditative memoir and an autobiography written by Hussein Barghouthi (1954-2002), as he faced death from cancer while still in his forties. The almond trees in the Palestinian village of his birth provide […]
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
The astronomical quantity and quality of research woven throughout Masalha’s a Four Thousand Year History creates an irrefutable counter-narrative to the myths often proclaimed by proponents of Zionism as fact. Additionally, this decolonial self-representational account shines a light on the ways in which Israel has deliberately and systematically attempted to destroy Palestinian history. Masalha is […]