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  • Don't Look Left

    A Diary of Genocide

    by Atef Abu Saif ...
    Profits from the sale of this book go to two Palestinian charities: Medical Aid for Palestinians and the Middle East Children’s AllianceA harrowing and indispensable first-hand account of the experience of the first 85 days of the Israeli invasion of Gaza, from a prominent Palestinian writer"In the morning I read the news. The news is about us. But it's designed for people reading it far, far away ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Book of Gaza

    A City in Short Fiction

    by Atef Abu Saif, Neyrouz Qarmout, Talal Abu Sharwish ...
    Series series Reading the City
    Under the Israeli occupation of the '70s and '80s, writers in Gaza had to go to considerable lengths to ever have a chance of seeing their work in print. Manuscripts were written out longhand, invariably under pseudonyms, and smuggled out of the Strip to Jerusalem, Cairo or Beirut, where they then had to be typed up. Consequently, fiction grew shorter, novels became novellas, and short stories ... Read more

    $9.20 CAD

  • The Drone Eats with Me

    A Gaza Diary

    by Atef Abu Saif ...
    An ordinary Gazan’s “devastating contemporary war journal” that chronicles his fear, sadness, and boredom during Israel’s 2014 invasion of Gaza (Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient)The Drone Eats with Me is an unforgettable rendering of everyday civilian life shattered by the realities of twenty-first-century warfare. Israel’s 2014 invasion of Gaza lasted 51 days, killed 2,145 ... Read more

    Was $21.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • This Is Not a Border

    Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

    by J.M. Coetzee, Mr William Sutcliffe, Michael Ondaatje, Teju Cole, Alice Walker, Michael Palin, Deborah Moggach, China Miéville, Jeremy Harding, Henning Mankell, Molly Crabapple, Linda Spalding, Adam Foulds, Gillian Slovo, Geoff Dyer, Chinua Achebe, Mahmoud Darwish, Yasmin El-Rifae, Suheir Hammad, Mercedes Kemp, Najwan Darwish, Suad Amiry, Ms Sabrina Mahfouz, John Horner, Bridget Keenan, Pankaj Mishra, Kamila Shamsie, Atef Abu Saif, Selma Dabbagh, Jehan Bseiso, Omar El-Khairy, Remi Kanazi, Maath Musleh, Dr. Ghada Karmi, Ed Pavlic, Muiz, Ru Freeman, Nancy Kricorian, Nathalie Handal, Mohammed Hanif, Victoria Brittain, Rachel Holmes, Raja Shehadeh, Claire Messud, Jamal Mahjoub, Susan Abulhawa ...
    Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert Hamilton. Bringing writers to Palestine from all corners of the globe, it aimed to break the cultural siege ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • Gaza

    The Story of a Genocide

    Edited by Fatima Bhutto, Sonia Faleiro ...
    An urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage of the genocide in Gaza, told by Palestinians.Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is Together, bears witness to the vast and ongoing destruction inflicted on the Palestinian people—their lives, their land, and their future.Ahmed Alnaouq recounts the devastating loss of twenty-one family members. Noor Alyacoubi ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Voices of Our Republic

    Exploring the Constitution with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Alan Dershowitz, Sandra Day O'Connor, Ron Chernow, and Many More

    Edited by Douglas H. Ginsburg ...
    This inspiring coffee table book serves as a companion to thethree-part 2020 PBS series A More or Less Perfect Union, A Personal Exploration by Judge Douglas Ginsburg, which delves into past, present, and future struggles for liberty through the lens of the US Constitution. Voices of Our Republic features thoughts about the Constitution from personalities, dignitaries, and everyday heroes, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Active Measures

    The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

    by Thomas Rid ...
    This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farmsWe live in the age of disinformation**—**of organized deception. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • A New Ireland

    How Europe's Most Conservative Country Became Its Most Liberal

    by Niall O'Dowd ...
    It’s not your father’s Ireland. Not anymore. A story of modern revolution in Ireland told by the founder of IrishCentral, Irish America magazine, and the Irish Voice newspaper.In a May 2019 countrywide referendum, Ireland voted overwhelmingly to make abortion legal; three years earlier, it had done the same with same-sex marriage, becoming the only country in the world to pass such a law by ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • The Antiracist

    How to Start the Conversation about Race and Take Action

    by Kondwani Fidel ...
    What would happen if people started moving beyond the conversation and took action to combat racism?We are in an era where many Americans express the sentiment, “I thought we were past that,” when a public demonstration of racism comes across their radar. Long before violence committed by police was routinely displayed on jumbotrons publicizing viral executions, the Black community has continually ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • The Wahhabi Code

    How the Saudis Spread Extremism Globally

    by Terence Ward ...
    An Eye-Opening, Concise Look at the Source of the Current Wave of Terrorism, How it Spread, and Why the West Did NothingLifting the mask of international terrorism, Terence Ward reveals a sinister truth. Far from being “the West’s ally in the War on Terror,” Saudi Arabia is in reality the largest exporter of Wahhabism—the severe, ultra-conservative sect of Islam that is both Saudi Arabia’s ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Ten Myths About Israel

    by Ilan Pappe ...
    “The most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” reveals the myths and reality behind the state of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (New Statesman).The outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel.The “ten myths”—repeated endlessly in the media, enforced by the military, and ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

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  • The Authoritarian Personality

    by Theodor Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson, R. Nevitt Sanford ...
    This hugely influential study on the psychology of authoritarianism was written in answer to Hitler’s Germany—and now rings more relevant than ever as fascism and anti-Semitism sweep across America.What makes a fascist? Are there character traits that make someone more likely to vote for the far right? The Authoritarian Personality is not only one of the most significant works of social psychology ... Read more

    $58.39 CAD