The beauty of your face

Sahar Mustafah’s debut novel traces the harrowing difficulties of an immigrant Palestinian family living near Chicago.  The author, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, has previously written an award-winning collection of short stories dealing with similar...

A Life of Edward Said

A key contributor to the Palestinian cause and, more broadly, to the field of post-colonial studies, Said’s legacy, like much in his life, remains contested. To his credit, the author of this biography does not shy away from sampling these controversies. Almost from...

The power broker: Mark Leibler An Australian Jewish life

Mark Leibler is a taxation specialist and Zionist lobbyist. According to Michael Gawenda, ex-Fairfax editor and the author of this biography, Leibler has had tremendous success in both these roles. Not only does this book give the critically informed reader the chance...

Still lives: A memoir of Gaza

As a leader of an NGO program, and later as a senior United Nations irregular, Marilyn Garson worked in Gaza for almost four years. This period included working through two Israeli assaults, the second the infamous attack in July-August 2014. This dense and historic...

Against the Loveless World

With ‘Against the Loveless World’, Susan Abulhawa has produced another powerful story of Palestinian resistance, a passionate, political tale. Not simply a novel, this book is part thriller, part history lesson, part love story, and part radical-feminist manifesto....