Still haven’t decided what to read this summer? Take your pick from the CCAS faculty summer reading list for 2024 to get a kickstart on your page count for the year. This year, our faculty chose a selection of books about Palestine. Here’s what they recommend:
Fida Adely
- My Brother My Land by Sami Hermez
- Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced by Rochelle Davis
- Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein
- Backstories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics by Amahl Bishara
- Justice for Some by Noura Erakat
Belkacem Baccouche
- Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani رجال في الشمس
- The Land of Sad Oranges by Ghassan Kanafani أرض البرتقال الحزين
Killian Clarke
- Hamas Contained by Tareq Baconi
- Justice for Some by Noura Erakat
Marwa Daoudy
- Gaza Unsilenced by Refaat Alareer and Leila El-Haddad
- Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial by Saree Makdisi
Rochelle Davis
- Cosmopolitan Radicalism: The Visual Politics of Beirut’s Global Sixties by Zeina Maasri
- The Wanted 18, (Film) directed by Paul Cowan and Amer Shomali
Noureddine Jebnoun
- Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine by Lisa Bhungalia
- A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall