Reading Palestine: Politics, History, and Literature

Understanding the history, culture, and politics of Palestine through its writers. Includes non-fiction works on Palestine as well as poetry, memoirs, and fiction that give expression to the landscape of Palestinian life. Cultural production becomes a way of exploring the history of Palestine, seeing Palestine through the eyes of its writers, and understanding the history and politics of Palestine. Covers Palestinian history in the pre-modern period, under colonialism, in the wake of the establishment of the state of Israel, under the current occupation, and in the Palestinian diaspora.