SUGGESTED READING ABOUT THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT
The Lemon Tree, by Sandy Nolan
My Promised Land, by Ari Shavit
The Iron Wall - Israel and the Arab World, by Avi Shlaim
A History of Modern Palestine, by Ilan Pappe
Embracing Israel/Palestine: A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East, by Michael
Lerner
Israel/Palestine - How to End the War of 1948, by Tanya Reinhart
Drinking the Sea at Gaza, by Amira Hass
The War for Palestine - Rewriting the History of 1948, edited by Eugene L. Rogan and Avi Shlaim
A Martyr's Crossing, a novel by Amy Wilentz
I Shall Not Hate, by Izzeldin Abuelaish*
Peace Be Upon You - Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Conflict and
Cooperation, by Zachary Karabell
Jerusalem - One City, Three Faiths, by Karen Armstrong
FILMS
Promises, 2011 Academy Award winning documentary
A Land Twice Promised, Noa Baum (available through Noa Baum’s web site)
Encounter Point, documentary produced by Just Vision
Dancing in Jaffa, 2013 documentary
*Three of Dr. Abuelaish’s daughters attended Creativity for Peace camp in 2003-4. Three of his
daughters, including one Creativity for Peace girl, were killed in the 2009 war in Gaza.