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Reviews
Ten Myths About Israel – Book Review
Reviewed by Ludwig Watzal – Bonn (Ilan Pappe, Ten Myths About Israel, Verso, London 2017.) Particularly, in the US and some European States, the Israeli and Zionist versions of history are wide-spread. Israel’s narrative relies on […]
Kingdom of Olives and Ashes: Writers Confront the Occupation – Book Review
Reviewed by Jim Miles (Kingdom of Olives and Ashes – Writers Confront the Occupation. Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, Ed. HarperCollins Publishers, Toronto. 2017.) A collection of twenty-six writers, Kingdom of Olives and Ashes touches on […]
The Breaking of the Middle East – Book Review
Reviewed by Jim Miles (The Six Day War – The Breaking of the Middle East. Guy Laron. Yale University Press, New Haven/London, 2017.) Between a short Introduction that attempts to construct the underlying social science […]
Balfour’s Shadow – A Book Review
Reviewed by Jim Miles (Balfour’s Shadow – A Century of British Support for Zionism and Israel. David Cronin. Pluto Press, London. 2017.) The Balfour Declaration, currently accepted by many as the founding legal statement for […]
Wasting the Milk in the Summer – Poetry Review
Reviewed by Samah Sabwai (Wasting the Milk in the Summer by Sara Saleh) Once in a while, you come across a poetry collection and your world comes to a stand still! You hold your breath […]
On ISIL, Arab TV and Post-Ideological Politics
By Jamil Khader Saudi-owned TV channel MBC finally caved in to the barrage of scathing criticism of its Ramadan series, Black Crows, pulling it off air after only 20 episodes. MBC has marketed the Black […]
The Parachute Paradox – A Book Review
Reviewed by Rod Such (Steven Sabella. The Parachute Paradox. Kerber.) If you were asked to conjure up an image that depicts the situation of the Palestinians, what would it be? A graphic image of an […]
Easternization – Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline – Book Review
Reviewed by Jim Miles (Easternization – Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline – From Obama to Trump and Beyond. Gideon Rachman. Other Press, New York. 2016.) While this book is not authored by a U.S. educated […]
Israel’s New Cultural War of Aggression
By Richard Falk A few weeks ago my book Palestine’s Horizon: Toward a Just Peace was published by Pluto in Britain. I was in London and Scotland at the time to do a series of […]
No Country for Jewish Liberals – A Book Review
Reviewed by Andy Simons Larry Derfner; No Country for Jewish Liberals (Charlottesville, Virginia : Just World Books, 272 pages, ISBN 978-1-68257-064-7, 2017) It’s rare that we get an Israeli perspective on the Palestinian struggle, one […]
Putin through American Eyes
By Jim Miles Vladimir Putin is the devil incarnate of the present US media frenzy. Having just read a trio of books concerning Putin it is obvious that the lens through which Putin is viewed […]
Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas – Review
By Vacy Vlazna “To them that walk in power; to exceed is madness, and not wisdom.” — Antigone The creation and slow demise of the two state solution in the Palestinian tragedy of the 20th and […]
Countering The Palestinian Nakba: One State For All – Book Review
Reviewed by Rifka Al-Amya (Eid, Haidar (Ed.). Countering The Palestinian Nakba: One State For All. Noor Publishing: Bahnhofstrabe, Germany. 2017.) World attention has been captured by Donald Trump’s unthoughtful statement about the one state solution […]
What Makes Israeli Apartheid ‘Special’?
By Rod Such Israel and South Africa: The Many Faces of Apartheid, a collection of essays edited by historian Ilan Pappe, takes for granted the validity of the assertion that Israel is an apartheid state. […]
The Train that Divides Jerusalem – Film Review
By Or Amit Google works in mysterious ways. You search for something, you find something else instead, and that something leads to something else still, until you’ve forgotten what you were looking for in the […]
Book ‘In Gaza I Dare to Dream’ Available Worldwide, Except in Gaza
By Yousef M. Aljamal – Gaza The Centre for Political and Development Studies (CPDS), in Gaza, held a lecture on Monday October 10 titled ‘In Gaza I Dare to Dream‘, by Rana Shubair, a Palestinian […]
Dreaming of Freedom: Palestine Child Prisoners Speak
By Noor Abuisha “A detention room, a big stick, the beating and the kicking” The violence that Ahmed Khalaf, (13 years), used to avoid seeing while watching action movies, was experienced for real with every […]
America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era – Book Review
Reviewed by Jim Miles (Mission Failure – America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era. Michael Mandelbaum. Oxford University Press, New York, 2016.) If the reader is looking for the ‘indispensable’ nation and its […]
Through a Glass Darkly: A Poetry Review – I Remember My Name
Reviewed by Hatim Kanaaneh (I Remember My Name – Poetry by Samah Sabawi, Ramzy Baroud and Jehan Bseiso. Vacy Vlazna, ed., 2016, Novum Publishing. Kindle Edition.) In penning this review, the primacy of Israel in […]
Inside the Middle East – Book Review
Reviewed by Jim Miles (Inside the Middle East – Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on Earth. Avi Melamed, Skyhorse Publishing, New York, 2016.) Reading Inside the Middle East is quite an […]
The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine – Book Review
Reviewed by Jim Miles (The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine. Ben Ehrenreich. Granta Books, London, 2016.) A small town in Palestinian West Bank, north of Jerusalem, Nabi Saleh, essentially the home-town […]
Obstacle to Peace – A Book Review
Reviewed by Jim Miles (Obstacle to Peace – The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Jeremy R. Hammond. Worldview Publications, Cross Village, Michigan. 2016.) It is obvious to most in the world that the U.S. […]
‘Gate of the Sun’: Hymn or Dirge – A Review
By Gaither Stewart – Rome On this hot Italian late afternoon, after over a week inside the literary work entitled Gate of the Sun, I am still wandering in the gossamer framework of the novel […]
The End of Jewish Modernity – A Review
Reviewed by Jim Miles (Enzo Traverso. The End of Jewish Modernity. Pluto Press, London, 2016.) Works of political theory, written within the sphere of intellectual/philosophical history, are generally a difficult read. The End of Jewish […]
Is Israel a Modern State? – A Book Review
Reviewed by Dr. Ludwig Watzal (Yakov M. Rabkin, What is Modern Israel, Pluto Press, London 2016, 228 pp. $ 27.) Zionism is primarily a Christian Protestant enterprise that has little to do with Judaism. This […]
Zarnouqa: Songs of Exile and Melancholy
By Haidar Eid – Gaza “Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true […]
America’s War for the Greater Middle East – A Book Review
Reviewed by Jim Miles (America’s War for the Greater Middle East – A military history. Andrew J. Bacevich. Random House, New York, 2016.) Andrew Bacevich has written a series of books on the topic of […]
A Book Talk: America’s Continuing Misadventures in the Middle East
(A Book Talk at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, May 12, 2016, Washington, D.C.) By Ambassador Chas W. Freeman Since the end of the Cold War, we’re had a lot of very instructive experience […]
Žižek’s Junction 48: Between Intersectional Analysis and Marxist Critique
By Jamil Khader In his blog, “Junction 48, Sexual is Political” (Huffington Post April 26, 2016), the eminent Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek roots, and rightly so, for Udi Aloni’s film, Junction 48, on “ideologico-political” grounds. […]
Salman Abu Sitta’s, Mapping My Return – Book Review
Reviewed by Vacy Vlazna (Salman Abu Sitta, Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir. Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press; 2016) “I spent the rest of my life on a long, winding journey of return, […]
