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Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd

Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal

Mohammed El-Kurd

245 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)

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nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Fascism and Democracy by George Orwell

Fascism and Democracy

George Orwell

36 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

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nonfiction history politics informative reflective fast-paced
The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994 by Edward W. Said

The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994

Edward W. Said

512 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

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nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Peter Beinart

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

Peter Beinart

172 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)

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nonfiction politics religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
A Million Kites: testimonies and poems from the children of Gaza 2023-2024 by Leila Boukarim, Asaf Luzon

A Million Kites: testimonies and poems from the children of Gaza 2023-2024

Leila Boukarim, Asaf Luzon

104 pages • first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

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nonfiction memoir poetry
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

235 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

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nonfiction essays politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba by Sandra Barrilaro, Teresa Aranguren

Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba

Sandra Barrilaro, Teresa Aranguren

240 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

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nonfiction history politics emotional informative reflective fast-paced
And Still We Write: Recent Work by Palestinian Poets & Actions You Can Take to Stop Genocide Now by Publishers for Palestine

And Still We Write: Recent Work by Palestinian Poets & Actions You Can Take to Stop Genocide Now

Publishers for Palestine

28 pages • first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

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nonfiction essays poetry politics short stories
The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said

The Question of Palestine

Edward W. Said

320 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

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nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies by Heba Hayek

Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies

Heba Hayek

129 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

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fiction literary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced