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The Lost Years: Radical Islam, Intifada, and Wars in the Middle East 2001–2006 - Charles Enderlin
From Ariel Sharon's ascent to power in February 2001 to the Israel-Lebanon conflict in July 2006, the Middle East has seen the most murderous years of a feud which is, today, half a century old.

In The Lost Years, Charles Enderlin presents a scrupulous chronicle of the Israeli and Palestinian descent into hell. Political leaders and secret negotiators, military chiefs and CIA agents, Enderlin has ...
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Road from ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía, and Iraq War Memoir - Camilo Mejia
Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía became the new face of the antiwar movement in early 2004 when he applied for a discharge from the Army as a conscientious objector. After serving in the Army for nearly nine years, he was the first known Iraq veteran to refuse to fight, citing moral concerns about the war and occupation. His principled stand helped to rally the growing opposition and embolden his fellow so...
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Young, Jewish and Left - Konnie Chameides (Director) and Irit Reinheimer (Director)
A celebration of diversity, Young Jewish and Left weaves queer culture, Jewish Arab history, secular Yiddishkeit, antiracist analysis, and religious/spiritual traditions into a multilayered tapestry of Leftist politics. Personal experiences from many of today's leading Jewish activists reframe the possibilities of Jewish identity. It presents a fresh and constructive take on race, spirituality, Zionis...
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On War And Love - Fouad Elkoury
Summer 2006. Thirty-three days of war in Lebanon. A beloved woman wants to leave. This is a diary about war. A diary about love. A diary about love in a time of war.

A mix of pictures shot by Fouad Elkoury in Beirut in 1982 and in 2006, this intimate diary is a striking evocation of Lebanon, a country that has remained war-torn for more than twenty-five years.
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If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of and Anti-Zionist Jew - Mike Marqusee
If I Am Not For Myself is a passionate, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century. It traces the author's upbringing in 1960s Jewish-American surburbia, his anti-war and pro-Palestinian activism on the British left, and life as a Jew among Muslims in Pakistan, Morocco, and Britain. Interwoven with this are the experiences of his grandfather's life in Jewis...
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Let Me Stand Alone: the Journals of Rachel Corrie - Rachel Corrie
How do we find our way in the world? How do our actions affect others? What do we owe the rest of humanity? These are the timeless questions so eloquently posed by Rachel Corrie, a young American activist killed on March 16, 2003, as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian family's home in the Gaza Strip. She was twenty-three years old.


Let Me Stand Alone reveals Corrie's strikin...
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The War Of 33: Letters from Beruit - Big Noise Films
The War of 33 is an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon. A series of letters written by Hanady Salman – a mother living through the war in Beirut – carve a narrative arc through the intense and haunting images of conflict. She tells the stories of her family and the people she lives the war with – the refugees, the wounded, and the everyday...
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Palestine: The Special Edition - Edward Said (Introduction by) and Joe Sacco
In late 1991 and early 1992, Joe Sacco spent two months with Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, traveling and taking notes. Upon returning to the States, he started writing and drawing Palestine, which combined the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comic-book storytelling to explore this complex, emotionally weighty situation. It won lots of awards, and quite right too. It is a bri...
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War With No End - Ahdaf Soueif (Contributor), Haifa Zangana (Contributor), Tram Nguyen (Contributor), Hanif Kureishi (Contributor), John Berger (Contributor), Naomi Klein (Contributor), Phyllis Bennis (Contributor), Joe Sacco (Contributor), and Arundhati Roy (Contributor)
On October 7th 2001, US-led forces invaded Afghanistan, marking the start of George Bush and Tony Blair's "War on Terror." Six years on, where have the policies of Bush and Blair left us? Bringing together some of the finest contemporary writers, this wide-ranging anthology, from reportage and "faction" to fiction, explores the impact of this "long war" throughout the world, from Palestine to Iraq, Abu Ghrai...
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Overcoming Zionism: Creating A Single Democratic State In Israel/Palestine - Joel Kovel
Joel Kovel argues that the inner contradictions of Zionism have led Israel to a "state-sponsored racism" fully as incorrigible as that of apartheid South Africa and deserving of the same resolution. He argues that only a path toward single-state secular democracy can provide the justice essential to healing the wounds of the Middle East.

Kovel is well-known as a writer on the Middle East conflict. In ...
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