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Pain and Prejudice
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JOD 15.50
In 2015 Gabrielle Jackson's account of living with endometriosis inspired a worldwide investigation into the disease by the Guardian. Blending personal memoir and polemic, she confronts the ways in which our culture responds to the pain caused by a variety of medical conditions unique to women, reve..
Palace Of Desire The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 2
JOD 13.50
The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. In Palace of Desire, his rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination, a..
Palace Walk The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1
JOD 14.50
The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughte..
Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars
JOD 12.50
14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed. The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become hardly more than a museum. The house of all power is up above on the Palatine Hill, about to become the birthplace of Western bureaucracy, a warren of banqueting and bedr..
Palestine
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In late l991 and early 1992, at the time of the first Intifada, Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, traveling and taking notes. Upon returning to the United States he started writing and drawing Palestine, which combines the techniques of eyewitness repo..
Palestine As Metaphor
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First English publication of interviews with the late Mahmoud Darwish. Palestine as Metaphor consists of a series of interviews with Mahmoud Darwish, which have never appeared in English before. The interviews are a wealth of information on the poet's personal life, his relationships, his numerous ..
Palestine Hijacked
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The Israel-Palestine “conflict” is typically understood to be a clash between two ethnic groups—Arabs and Jews—inhabiting the same land. Thomas Suárez digs deep below these preconceptions and their supporting “narratives” to expose something starkly The violent take-over of Palestine by a European r..
Palestine Laboratory
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How Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine Israel’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years, occupat..
Palestine on a Plate
JOD 27.00
Palestinian food is not just found on the streets of the Old City of Jerusalem with the ka’ak (sesame) bread sellers and stalls selling za’atar chicken and mana’eesh (za’atar and sesame bread), but in the home too; in the kitchens all across the country, where families cook and eat together every da..
Palestine On A Plate: Memories From My Mothers Kit...
JOD 21.00
Palestine On A Plate is a tribute to family, cooking, and home - old recipes created with love that brings people together in appreciation of the beauty of this rich heritage. This is a celebration of real Palestinian food, cooked with the ingredients that Joudie's mother and grandmother use, and th..
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
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This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history. Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how ..
Palestine: Memories of 1948 - Photographs of Jerus...
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Seventy-one years ago, in 1948, the Nakba—the "catastrophe"—overturned life in Palestine, forcing three-quarters of Palestinians into exile, depriving them of their land, their homes, their belongings. Today, those who can bear witness to that period are becoming rare. From different social backgrou..