Middle Eastern Studies

Recent Statements and Letters:

California:

• Nov. 7 — A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Cudahy, California Affirming the City’s Support and Solidarity with the Palestinian People of Gaza (Pages 41-43)
• Oct. 31 — Claremont Consortium Faculty Statement on Gaza
• Oct. 24 — Richmond City Council: Resolution Affirming Richmond's Support and Solidarity with the Palestinian People of Gaza
• Oct. 16 — UC Berkeley Faculty Statement of Solidarity with Palestinians
• Oct. 16 — UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council Letter to UC Board of Regents
• Condemnation Letter of the University of California Board of Regents Statement on Mideast Violence

General:

• Nov. 9 — A Statement by Journalists: We condemn Israel's killing of journalists in Gaza and urge integrity in Western media coverage of Israel's atrocities against Palestinians.
• Nov. 8 — Feminists For a Free Palestine. Stop the Genocide. End the Occupation
• Nov. 3 — Publishers for Palestine: Statement of Solidarity
• Nov. 2 — A Dangerous Conflation: An Open Letter from Jewish Writers
• Oct. 20 — Open Letter from North American Rabbis and Cantors Responding to the Crisis in Israel and Gaza
• Oct. 18 - Explaining My Resignation by Josh Paul (Former) Director at U.S. Department of State
• Artists4Ceasefire
• Black Solidarity with Gaza (Black for Palestine)
• Jewish Voice for Peace calls on all people of conscience to stop imminent genocide 
• Statement of Free Syrians in solidarity with the Palestinian people

Global Academics and Scholars:

• Nov. 21 — Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Board Letter to Biden Administration on Ceasefire in Gaza
• Nov. 20 — An Open Letter on the Misuse of Holocaust Memory (The New York Review of Books)
• Nov. 13 — Harvard Faculty Response to "Combating Antisemitism" | by Academic Freedom Faculty Statement
• Nov. 7 — An open letter from Jewish students — The Brown Daily Herald
• Nov. 7 — Duke University Faculty for Justice: Statement on Palestine
• Nov. 6 — Statement of solidarity with Palestine from academics in Australian universities
• Nov. 3 — Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Endorsement of Solidarity with Palestine Statement 
• Nov. 2 — Open Letter: Statement of solidarity with Palestine and call to action from The University of Melbourne’s Staff, Students, and Alumni
• Nov. 1 — Open Letter to Colleges and University Leaders: Reject Efforts to Restrict Constitutionally Protected Speech on Campuses (ACLU) 
• Oct. 30 — Columbia Faculty Letter: Grave Concerns About the Well-Being of Our Students 
• Oct. 28 — Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom, University Governance, and Safety at the University of Pennsylvania
• Oct. 26 — Scholars of South Asia in Solidarity with Palestine
• Oct. 24 — Academic Freedom in Times of War | AAUP
• Oct. 24 — American Academy of Religion Statement on the Crisis in Israel and Palestine
• Oct. 23 — Freedom for the One Who Thinks Differently | An Open Letter from a Group of Jewish Artists, Writers, and Scholars in Germany
• Oct. 17 — Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza – TWAILR
• Oct. 16 — Middle East Studies Association Board Statement on Palestine and Israel
• Oct. 14 — Standing With Palestine: The University of Minnesota Faculty Statement in Solidarity with the People of Palestine
• Oct. 9 — Défendre les libertés d'expression sur la Palestine: un enjeu académique
• Academic Alliance Against Antisemitism, Racism, Colonialism & Censorship in Canada (ARC) | Emergency Statement & Call to Action
• Librarians and Archivists with Palestine (LAP): 2023 Statement on Gaza
• Sociologists in Solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian People 

Legal:

• Nov. 2 — International Bar Association calls for adherence to international law
• Oct. 30 Statement of International Criminal Court Prosecutor on the situation in the State of Palestine and Israel
• Oct. 28 — Letter of Resignation by Craig Mokhiber, Formerly Director of the UN Human Rights Office in New York

Palestine:

• Nov. 9 — Letters From Gaza, Part 5 
• Oct. 30 — Letters from Gaza
• Oct. 25 — Letters from Gaza, Part 13
• Oct. 20 — An Open Letter from Palestinian Christians to Western Church Leaders and Theologians
• Oct. 17 — Letters from Gaza, Part 2 
• Oct. 15 - "Do Not be Silent about Genocide” Open Letter from Birzeit University in Palestine to International Academic Institutions
• Oct. 15 - Letters from Gaza, Part 1
• Statement by Over 30 Palestinian Trade Unions and Professional Associations

Unions:

• Nov. 9 — USTP Port De Barcelona: "Les Treballadores del port de Barcelona condemnem tota violencia als pobles oprimits‼️ 
• Nov. 8 — American Postal Workers Union Statement on the Conflict in Israel and Palestine
• Nov. 7 — Don’t Send Indian Construction Workers to Israel to Replace Palestinian Workers (Construction Workers, Federation of India)
• Nov. 7 — Stop Sending Indian Workers to Israel to Complement Its Genocidal Misdeed (Centre of Indian Trade Unions)
• Nov. 6 — OEPB: "Comunicat oficial del sindicat d'estibadors de Barcelona"
• Oct. 31 — Belgian Trade Unions Statement: Refusal to Handle Military Equipment for War in Palestine (For English, click here)
• Oct. 20 — Starbucks Workers United stands with Palestine

Recent Reports/Papers:

• Nov. 2023 — Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights: Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes in the Palestine–Israel Discourse
• Oct. 18 — Center for Constitutional Rights: Emergency Legal Briefing Paper

Recent Articles — Opinion — Interviews: 

• Nov. 13 — Why Israel has been accused of committing genocide in Gaza (Vox) — Nicole Narea and Sigal Samuel
• Nov. 11 — The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers (The New Yorker) 
• Nov. 1 — A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation (Literary Hub) — Fady Joudah
• Nov. 1 — “Dear God, this is going to be a genocide." A Bosnian genocide survivor on Israel’s siege on Gaza (Analyst News)
• Oct. 31 — The ADL Is Defaming Palestinian Students as Terrorist Supporters (The Nation) — Spencer Ackerman
• Oct. 27 — Our Siege is Long (Public Books) — Esmat Elhalaby 
• Oct. 26 — Tectonic Shifts: A Conversation with Darryl Li (The Baffler) — Dylan Saba 
• Oct. 25 — No Human Being Can Exist (NPlus One Magazine) — Saree Makdisi, UCLA
• Oct. 25 — Good Morning Gaza: The Untranslatable Palestinian Flesh (The Baffler) — Fady Joudah
• Oct. 24 — Harvard vs. Haaretz: Why similar opinions get widely diverging responses (The Hill) — Mahan Mirza
• Oct. 24 — "A Desperate Situation Getting More Desperate" An Interview with Rashid Khalidi (The Drift Mag)
• Oct. 14 — To Say and Think a Life Beyond what Settler Colonialism has Made (Mada Masr) — Samera Esmeir
• Oct. 13 — A Textbook Case of Genocide (Jewish Currents) — Raz Segal 
• Oct. 12 — “We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other” (Jewish Currents) — Arielle Angel  
• Oct. 10 — The Violence of Demanding Perfect Victims (Jadaliyya) — Noura Erakat

Media (English):

• Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera
• Democracy Now! — Independent Global News
• Jadaliyya
• Jewish Currents
• Mada Masr
• Mondoweiss — News & Opinion About Palestine, Israel & the U.S.
• Middle East Eye: News, Opinion, and Analysis
• Palestine Chronicle

Media (Arabic):

• Al-Jazeera Arabic | الجزيرة نت: آخر أخبار اليوم حول العالم
• Annahar | النهار
• عرب 48 (arab48.com)
• Pal Times Net | فلسطين الآن - بوابتك للحقيقة
• Palestine News and Info Agency | وكالة الانباء والمعلومات الفلسطينية - وفا 
• Rafah Online | رفح نيوز أونلاين

Histories and Overviews:

• Al-Nakbah: Nakbat bayt al-muqaddas wa al-firdaws al-mafqūd, 1947-1955 / 'Arif al-'Arif (1962)
• Colonizing Palestine: the Zionist left and the making of the Palestinian Nakba / Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (2023)
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement / Angela Davis (2016)
• On Anti-Semitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice / Jewish Voice for Peace (2017)
• The ethnic cleansing of Palestine / Ilan Pappe (2006)
• The hundred years' war on Palestine: a history of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917-2017 / Rashid Khalidi (2020)
• The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A History - James Gelvin (2021)
• The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction / Martin Bunton (2013)
• The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-determination, 1969-1994 / Edward W. Said (1994)
• The Question of Palestine / Edward W. Said (1979)

Legal Studies and Human Rights:

• A history of false hope: investigative commissions in Palestine / Lori Allen (2021)
• Al-Haq: a global history of the first Palestinian human rights organization / Lynn Welchman (2021)
• The Arab-Israeli Conflict and International Law / S. Michael Lynk, Susan Musarrat Akram (2013)
• Subject Search: Human Rights — Gaza Strip
• Subject Search: Human rights — West Bank
• Subject Search: Palestinian Arabs — Legal Status, Laws, etc.

Economic and Labor History:

• al-Iqtiṣād al-Ṣihyūnī al-ghāṣib wa-al-iqtiṣād al-Filasṭīnī al-asīr; الاقتصاد الصهيوني الغاصب والاقتصاد الفلسطيني الأسير / Aḥmad al-Sayyid al-Najjār (2022)
• Buḥūth fī al-iqtiṣād al-Isrāi̓̄lī; بحوث في الاقتصاد الإسرائيلي / Ḥusayn Abū al-Naml (1975)
• Palestinians in the Israeli labor market : a multi-disciplinary approach / edited by Nabil Khattab and Sami Miaari (2013)
• Stone men: the Palestinians who built Israel / Andrew Ross (2019)
• Subject Search — Palestinian, Economic

Literature (Compilations):

• Anthology of modern Palestinian literature / edited and introduced by Salma Khadra Jayyusi (1994)  
• The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction / edited by Atef Abu Saif (2014)
• The Butterfly's Burden: Poems / by Mahmoud Darwish ; translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah (2007)
• Father and Son: selected short fiction / by Hanna Ibrahim Elias and Mohammad Ali Saeid ; edited and translated by Jamal Assadi (2009)
• Men in the Sun & other Palestinian Stories / Ghassan Kanafani ; translated from Arabic by Hilary Kilpatrick (1999)

Gender:

• Al-Marʼah al-Filasṭīnīyah wa-al-thawrah : dirāsah ijtimāʻīyah maydānīyah taḥlīlīyah; المرأة الفلسطينية والثورة : دراسة اجتماعية ميدانية تحليلية / Ghazī al-Khalīlī (1981)
• al-Nisawīyah al-Islāmīyah wa-dawruhā fī al-tanmīyah al-siyāsīyah fī Filasṭīn = The Islamic Feminism and its role in political development in Palestine; النسوية الإسلامية ودورها في التنمية السياسية في فلسطين / Khulūd Rashād al-Miṣrī (2016)
• ʻAn al-nisāʼ wa-al-muqāwamah : al-riwāyah al-istiʻmārīyah; عن النساء والمقاومة : الرواية الإستعمارية / Amīrah Muḥammad Silmī (2009)
• Ittijahāt al-kitābah ḥawl al-marʼah al-Filasṭīniyah, 1960-2002 / Khadījah al-Ḥabāshnah (2014)
• Women's political activism in Palestine : peacebuilding, resistance, and survival / Sophie Richter-Devroe (2018)

Journals:

• The Arabs under Israeli Occupation
• Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature
• Journal of Palestine Studies
• Majallat al-Dirāsāt al-Filasṭīnīyah
• Palestine Human Rights Bulletin
• Palestine Red Crescent Society — Periodicals
• Subject Search — Palestinian Journals 

Film (on Kanopy):

• Last Stop: Palestine: The Invisible War in the West Bank (2013)
• Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Photos and Stories (1997)

Palestinian Arabic: Dictionaries and Learning Resources

• Colloquial Arabic (Levantine) / Leslie McLoughlin (2009)
• Muʻjam al-alfāẓ al-turāthīyah fī Filasṭīn; معجم الألفاظ التراثية في فلسطين / حسين علي لوباني / Ḥusayn ʻAlī Lūbānī (2007)
• Muʻjam al-mufradāt wa-al-muṣṭalaḥāt al-shaʻbīyah fī Filasṭīn = Dictionary of popular terms & expressions in Palestine : Arabic-Arabic; معجم المفردات و المصطلحات الشعبيةّ في فلسطين /‏ ‏حسين علي لوباني / Ḥusayn ʻAlī Lūbānī (2018)
• Rural Palestinian Arabic / Kimary Shahin (1995)

Reference Works:

• Muʻjam al-ḥikāyāt al-shaʻbīyah al-Filasṭīnīyah = Dictionary of Palestinian folk tales; معجم الحكايات الشعبية الفلسطينية  / Ḥusayn ʻAlī Lūbānī (2012)
• Muʻjam asmāʼ al-mudun wa-al-qurá al-Filasṭīnīyah wa-tafsīr maʻānīhā; معجم أسماء المدن والقرى الفلسطينية وتفسير معانيها / حسين علي لوباني الداموني الجليلي / Ḥusayn ʻAlī Lūbānī al-Dāmūnī al-Jalīlī (2003)
• Muʻjam shuʻarāʼ Filasṭīn : jamʻ wa-tawthīq; معجم شعراء فلسطين : جمع وتوثيق  / Muḥammad Ḥilmī al-Rīshah (2003)

Online Guides:

• Decolonize Palestine 
• Historians for Peace Recommended Readings on Palestine and Israel (Oct 2023)
• Librarians with Palestine: Readings and Resources
• Palestinian Justice Syllabus
• Project 48 on the Nakba
• Readings and Digital Resources on Palestine | Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard
• The Palestine Directory 

Digital Projects and Archives:

Data:

• Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
• Palestine 6th Oct - 23rd Oct 2023 by Soha Elghany | Data Visualization by Tableau Public
• UN (OCHA) Compilation of Data on Palestine

Legal and UN:

• Adalah Legal Center Database of Discriminatory Laws
• Institute for Palestine Studies - Congressional Monitor
• List of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Resolutions on Palestine
• Mandate and Objectives of the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People
• Translated Security Decrees - West Bank
• United Nations Information System on Palestine (UNISPAL)

Maps/Atlases:

• Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature | Stanford University Press
• Decolonizer Maps
• Palestine Open Maps

Primary Sources, References and Archives:

• From the Archives: Keeping Mind of Palestine in Canada
• Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question
• Islamic Manuscript Collection of the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza: HMML Repository
• Institute for Palestine Studies - Settlement Monitor
• Khazaaen Archives (Jerusalem) 
• Nakba Archive | أرشيف النكبة
• Official Gazette Issued by Palestinian National Authority | معهد الحقوق - جامعة بيرزيت: الوقائع الفلسطينية
• Palestinian Oral History Archive - POHA
• Palestine Poster Project
• The Accountability Archive (@archivegenocide)
• The Palestinian Museum Digital Archive - أرشيف المتحف الفلسطيني الرقمي : أهلًا وسهلًا
• The Story of Gaza: Physically, historically, and politically locating the Gaza Strip
• Visualizing Palestine

Institutions/Organizations:

• Al-Haq: Defending Human Rights
• American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)
• Arab Human Rights Center in Golan-Heights
• BDS Movement
• Bisan Center for Research and Development | مركز بيسان للبحوث والإنماء (bisan.org)
• B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
• Center for Palestine Studies (Columbia University)
• Human Rights Watch
• If Not Now Movement
• Independent Jewish Voices Canada
• Jewish Voice for Peace
• Librarians with Palestine
• Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
• Palestine Children's Relief Fund 
• Palestinian Feminist Collective
• Palestine Land Society
• Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
• Palestine Legal
• Palestine Red Crescent Society | جمعية الهلال الأحمر الفلسطيني
• Palestinian Ministry of Health |  وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية
• Palestinian Ministry of Land | وزارة الأراضي الفلسطينية
• Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet
• Palestinian Youth Movement
• Pal-Think For Strategic Studies
• Standing Together
• Union of Palestinian Women's Committees (UPWC)
• UNRWA | United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees
• US Campaign for Palestinian Rights
• Women's Affairs Technical Committee (Palestine)
• Zochrot | From Nakba to Return