Relevant Books: The Nakba

• Abu Sitta, Salman H. Atlas of Palestine: 1917-1966. Palestine Land Society, 2010. 
• Khalidi, Rashid. Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness. Columbia University Press, 1997.  
• Khalidi, Rashid. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Metropolitan Books, 2020. 
• Khalidi, Walid. Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians, 1876-1948. Institute for Palestine Studies, 1984. 
• Masalha, Nur. Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of “Transfer” in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948. Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992. 
• Nassar, Issam, Stephen Sheehi,  and Salim Tamari. Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine. University of California Press, 2022. 
• Pappe, Ilan. A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 

Events

• Abdo, Nahla and Nur Masalha, eds. An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba. Zed Books, 2019. 
• Khalidi, Rashid. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Metropolitan Books, 2020. 
• Pappe, Ilan. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oneworld Publications, 2006. 

Aftermath

• Bishara, Azmi. Palestine: Matters of Truth and Justice. C. Hurst & Co., 2022. 
• Erakat, Noura. Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. Stanford University Press, 2019. 
• Farsoun, Samih K. and Christina E. Zacharia. Palestine and the Palestinians. Westview Press, 1997. 
• Khalidi, Rashid. The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. Beacon Press, 2007. 
• Khalidi, Walid. All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Destroyed by Israel in 1948. Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992. 
• El-Malak, Lena. Stolen Nation: The Right to Repatriation of Palestinian Refugees. I.B. Tauris, 2024. 
• Manna, Adel. Nakba and Survival: The Story of Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948-1956. University of California Press, 2022. 
• Masalha, Nur. The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem. Pluto Press, 2003. 
• Pappe, Ilan. A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 
• Raz, Adam. Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property. Verso Books, 2024. 
• Sa`di, Ahmad H. and Lila Abu-Lughod, eds. Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory. Columbia University Press, 2001. 
• Said, Edward W. The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994. Vintage Books, 1995. 
• Said, Edward W. The Question of Palestine. Vintage Books, 2007. 

• Abu El-Haj, Nadia. Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society. University of Chicago Press, 2002. 
• Benvenisti, Meron.  Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948. Translated by Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta. University of California Press, 2002.  
• Khalidi, Walid. All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Destroyed by Israel in 1948. Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992. 
• Khalidi, Walid. From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem Until 1948. Institute for Palestine Studies, 2005. 
• Masalha, Nur. Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of “Transfer” in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948. Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992. 
• Masalha, Nur. The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem. Pluto Press, 2003. 
• Pappe, Ilan. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oneworld Publications, 2006. 
• Raz, Adam. Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property. Verso Books, 2024. 
• Robinson, Shira. Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State. Stanford University Press, 2013. 
• Sabbagh-Khoury, Areej. Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba. Stanford University Press, 2023. 
• Said, Edward W. and Christopher Hitchens, eds. Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question. Verso Press, 2001. 

• Allan, Diana, ed. Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine. Pluto Press, 2021. 
• Chatty, Dawn. Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East. Cambridge University Press, 2010. 
• Davis, Rochelle A. Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced. Stanford University Press, 2011. 
• Feldman, Ilana. Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics. University of California Press, 2018. 
• Peteet, Julie. Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 
• Sayigh, Rosemary. Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries. Zed Books, 1979. 
• Sayigh, Rosemary. Too Many Enemies: The Palestinian Experience in Lebanon. Zed Books, 1994.

• Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim. Resistance, Exile and Return: Conversations with Hisham Ahmed-Fararjeh. Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies, Birzeit University, 2003. 
• Abu Sitta, Salman. Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir. The American University in Cairo Press, 2016. 
• Ameri, Anan. The Scent of Jasmine: Coming of Age in Jerusalem and Damascus. Olive Branch Press, 2017. 
• Barghouti, Mourid. I Saw Ramallah. Translated by Ahdaf Soueif. Anchor Books, 1997. 
• Karmi, Ghada. Return: A Palestinian Memoir. Verso Press, 2015. 
• Said, Edward W. Out of Place: A Memoir. Vintage Books, 2000. 
• Sharabi, Hisham. Embers and Ashes: Memoirs of an Arab Intellectual. Translated by Issa J. Boullata. Olive Branch Press, 2008. 
• Tuqan, Fadwa. A Mountainous Journey: A Poet’s Autobiography. Translated by Olive Kenny and Naomi Shihab Nye. Graywolf Press, 1990. 
• Turki, Fawaz. The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian Exile. Monthly Review Press, 1974. 
• Turki, Fawaz. Exile’s Return: The Making of a Palestinian American. Monthly Review Press, 1994. 
• Turki, Fawaz. Soul in Exile: Lives of a Palestinian Revolutionary. Monthly Review Press, 1988. 

• Abulhawa, Susan. Mornings in Jenin. Bloomsbury, 2010. 
• Abu-Manneh, Bashir. The Palestinian Novel: From 1948 to the Present. Cambridge University Press, 2016. 
• Al-Qasim, Samih. All Faces but Mine. Translated by Abdulwahid Lu’lu’a. Syracuse University Press, 2015. 
• Ashour, Radwa. The Woman from Tantoura: A Novel from Palestine. Translated by Kay Heikkinen. Hoopoe, 2019. 
• Darwish, Mahmoud. Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems. Translated by Munir Akash and Carolyn Forché. University of California Press, 2013. 
• Habiby, Emile. The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist. Translated by Salma Khadra Jayyusi and Trevor LeGassick. Interlink Books, 2003. 
• Jabra, Jabra Ibrahim. Hunters in a Narrow Street. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1990.  
• Kanafani, Ghassan. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories. Translated by Hilary Kilpatrick. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1998. 
• Kanafani, Ghassan. Palestine’s Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories. Translated by Barbara Harlow and Karen E. Riley. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2000. 
• Khoury, Elias. Gate of the Sun. Translated by Humphrey Davies. Archipelago Books, 2006.
• Yaqub, Nadia. Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution. University of Texas Press, 2018.