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The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story *

By Aya Khalil and Anait Semirdzhyan (Illustrator)

Baba, What Does My Name Mean? A Journey to Palestine

By Rifk Ebeid, Lamaa Jawhari (Illustrator)

The Cat Man of Aleppo *

By Karim Shamsi-Basha, Irene Latham, Yuko Shimizu (Illustrator)

Counting Up the Olive Tree

By Golbarg Bashi and Nabi H. Ali (Illustrator)

Day of Ahmed's Secret

By Florence Parry Gilliland Heide

Eleven Words for Love: A Journey Through Arabic Expressions of Love *

By Randa Abdel-Fattah and Maxine Beneba Clarke (Illustrator)

Everybody Bakes Bread

By Norah Dooley

Halal Hot Dogs

By Susannah Aziz and Parwinder Singh (Illustrator)

Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine

By Hannah Moushabeck and Reem Madooh (Illustrator)
From Prism: Palestinian authors grapple with a wave of censorship

Illustrators Notebook

By Mohieddin Ellabbad

Insha'Allah, No, Maybe So

By Rhonda Roumani, Nadia Roumani, and Olivia Aserr (Illustrator)

The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq

By Jeanette Winter

Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers

By Uma Mishra-Newbery, Lina Al-Hathloul, and Rebecca Green (Illustrator)

Memory Garden

By Zohreh Ghahremani and Susie Ghahremani (Illustrator)

My Fathers Shop Morocco

By Satomi Ichikawa

The Night Before Eid: A Muslim Family Story *

By Aya Khalil and Rashin Kheiriyeh (Illustrator)

Nour's Secret Library

By Wafa' Tarnowska and Vali Mintzi (Illustrator)

Olive Harvest in Palestine: A Story of Childhood Memories

By Wafa Shami and Shaima Farouki (Illustrator)

The Olive Tree Said to Me

By N. Salem

Oranges in No Man's Land

By Elizabeth Laird

P is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book

By Golbarg Bashi (Illustrator), Golrokh Nafisi (Editor), Kourosh Beigpour (Editor)

Rest in My Shade: A Poem about Roots

By Nora Lester Murad and Danna Masad

Salim's Soccer Ball

By Tala Fahmawi and Neveen Abu Saleem (Illustrator)

Salma the Syrian Chef*

By Reem Faruqi and Fahmida Azim (Illustrator)

Salma Makes a Home

By Danny Ramadan and Anna Bron (Illustrator)

Salma Writes a Book

By Danny Ramadan and Anna Bron (Illustrator)

Sami and the Time of the Troubles

By Florence Parry Gilliland Heide

Sitti's Bird: A Gaza Story *

By Malak Mattar

Sitti's Secrets*

By Naomi Shihab Nye, Nancy Carpenter (Illustrator)

Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family's Journey*

By Margriet Ruurs

Swimming Toward a Dream: Yusra Mardini's Incredible Journey from Refugee to Olympic Swimmer

By Reem Faruqi

The Story of Hurry*

By Emma Williams and Ibrahim Quraishi (Illustrator)

Ten Ways to Hear Snow

By Cathy Camper and  Kenard Pak (Illustrator)
Spanish edition available: Diez maneras de escuchar la nieve

These Olive Trees

By Aya Ghanameh

Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak

By Deborah Ellis

Umm Kulthum: The Star of the East

By Rhonda Roumani and Ahmed Abdelmohsen (Illustrator)

You Are the Color

By Rifk Ebeid and Noor Alshalabi (Illustrator)

Baddawi

By Leila Abdelrazaq

Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine

By  Ibtisam Barakat

Farah Rocks Fifth Grade

By Susan Muaddi Darraj and Ruaida Mannaa (Illustrator)

Habibi

By Naomi Shihab Nye

Honeybee: Poems & Short Prose

By Naomi Shihab Nye

Ida in the Middle *

By Nora Lester Murad

Iraqigirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq

By Iraqigirl

A Little Piece of Ground*

By Elizabeth Laird, Sonia Nimr (With)

Other Words for Home *

By Jasmine Warga

The Secret Diary of Mona Hasan

By Salma Hussain

Sugar Comes from Arabic: A Beginners Guide to Arabic Letters and Words

By Barbara Whitesides

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood

By Ibtisam Barakat

Review on Rethinking Schools

The Turtle of Oman

By Naomi Shihab Nye

We Are Palestinian: A Celebration of Culture and Tradition

By Reem Kassis and  Noha Eilouti (Illustrator)

Where the Streets Had a Name

By Randa Abdel-Fattah

Young Palestinians Speak: Living Under Occupation

By Anthony Robinson, Annemarie Young

Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba

Edited by Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro

A Child’s View from Gaza: Palestinian Children’s Art & the Fight Against Censorship *

By Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)

Code Name: Butterfly

By Ahlam Bsharat

Determined to Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village

By Jody Sokolower, foreword by Nick Estes

Finding Melody Sullivan *

By Alice Rothchild

Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine

By Refaat Alareer (Editor)

Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City

By Guy Delisle

Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation

Edited by Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke
Free Curriculum Download

Power Born of Dreams: My Story Is Palestine

By Mohammad Sabaaneh

The Shepherd's Granddaughter

By Anne Laurel Carter

Review on Rethinking Schools

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

By Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri

Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer

By Phyllis Bennis

After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives

By Edward Said, Jean Mohr (Photographer)

Against the Loveless World

By Susan Abulhawa

Anti Arab Racism in the USA: Where It Comes from & What It Means for Politics Today

By Steven Salaita

Apeirogon: A Novel

By Colum McCann

Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us, and Why it Matters

By James Zogby

Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq *

By Riverbend

The Battle for Justice in Palestine

By Ali Abunimah

Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine

By Remi Kanazi

Behind You Is the Sea

By Susan Muaddi Darraj

Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color

By Michael R. Fischbach

Crescent

By Diana Abu-Jaber

Country Called Amreeka: U.S. History Retold Through Arab American Lives

By Alia Malek

Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege

By Amira Hass

Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance

By Shourideh C. Molavi

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

By Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick

Footnotes in Gaza

By Joe Sacco

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By Angela Y. Davis, preface by Cornel West

Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation

By Raja Shehadeh

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017

By Rashid Khalidi

In the Country of Men

By Hisham Matar

Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five

By Miko Peled

Interviews with Radical Palestinian Women

By Shoal Collective
Free download on publisher website: Shoal Collective - Our Publications

Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

By Noura Erakat

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire

Edited by Jennifer Bing, Mike Merryman-Lotze, and Jehad Abusalim

The Map of Salt and Stars

By Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

Mornings in Jenin

By Susan Abulhawa

My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine

By Sami Hermez with Sireen Sawalha

Night Counter

By Alia Yunis

Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life

By Sari Nusseibeh with Anthony David

Orientalism

By Edward W. Said

Palestine

By Joe Sacco, Edward W. Said (Introduction by)

Palestine: The Reality: The Inside Story of the Balfour Declaration 1917-1938

By J. M. N. Jeffries

The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing Pedagogical Strategies

By M. Knopf-Newman

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

By Jack G. Shaheen

Salt Houses

By Hala Alyan

Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home

Edited by Penny Johnson and Raja Shehadeh

Ten Myths About Israel

By Ilan Pappé

Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

Edited by Sonia Sulaiman

Tracing Homelands: Israel, Palestine, and the Claims of Belonging

By Linda Dittmar

The Wall Between: What Jews and Palestinians Don't Want to Know about Each Other

By Raja Khouri and Jeffrey Wilkinson

19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East

By Naomi Shihab Nye

Review on Rethinking Schools

Born Palestinian, Born Black & the Gaza Suite

By Suheir Hammad

The Butterfly's Burden

By Mahmoud Darwish, Fady Joudah (Translator)

The Flag of Childhood: Poems from the Middle East

Edited by Naomi Shihab Nye

Review on Rethinking Schools

Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab-American Poetry

Edited by Gregory Orfalea and Sharif Elmusa

I Don't Want This Poem to End: Early and Late Poems

By Mahmoud Darwish
Teaching Activity

Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology

By Nathalie Handal (Editor)

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By Mosab Abu Toha

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