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An unflinchingly personal insight into the lives of the Palestinian people and of unwavering hope through the diary of a teenage girl in Gaza As bombs screamed overhead, a young Palestinian teenager grabbed her notebook and wrote, 'If I survive today, I will write everything.' Jana was 13 at the...

The Last Correspondent: Anthony Shadid, the Middle East, and the Ruins of War by Philip Bennett and Steve Fainaru is a forthcoming title from Celadon Books...

In November 2022, Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power in Israel after the fifth election in less than four years. Propped up by a bloc of far-right and ultra-religious parties, Netanyahu's government is the most extreme administration in Israeli history. It has pushed Israeli society to...

Brought to you by Penguin. For more than two decades, Marwan Barghouti has been held in an Israeli prison cell, much of that time in total isolation. Yet his voice has never been forgotten. Described by the Economist as ‘the world’s most important prisoner’ and often referred to as...

The lead US interrogator of Saddam Hussein George Piro delivers a riveting account of his six months with Saddam, in formal interrogations and unguarded conversations, revealing surprising truths about the dictator’s psyche, the complexity of power, and key decisions that shaped today’s...

From “the Chuck D of Palestinian hip-hop” (Los Angeles Times), a memoir of three generations of one Palestinian family up against loss, oppression, and a shape-shifting past, present, and future, in a work of stunning originality and kinetic energy 3Gs tells the stories of a father, his son...

A vital history of Gaza from Antiquity to the present—defying Israel's attempts to erase its heritage Today Gaza lies in ruins after a genocide perpetrated before our eyes. Over 80% of its buildings have been destroyed, and its people have suffered the worst horrors imaginable. For over twenty...

On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took the entire diplomatic staff hostage. While President Jimmy Carter initially pursued a diplomatic solution to the crisis, he authorized the military to begin planning a rescue mission.

Esta es la historia de un hombre que pese a llevar más de veinte años encarcelado, sigue luchando por la libertad, la dignidad y el futuro de su pueblo. Marwan Barghouti lleva más de dos décadas retenido en la celda de una prisión israelí, la mayor parte del tiempo en régimen de aislamiento. Aun así, el mundo no ha olvidado su voz.

A stunning, soul-stirring, philosophical and political treatise on what liberation for Palestine—and all people—will look like in the twenty-first century. Palestine is a litmus test—the repercussions of which will go beyond the Middle East, extending outward across the world, argues...

“A deeply felt memoir of race and history that defies social erasures of the diasporic Palestinian experience, They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful boldly explores how politicized identities, especially within the US, are shaped and manipulated by broader agendas.” —The Whiting Award...

Hieroglyphs were far more than a language. They were an omnipresent and all-powerful force in communicating the messages of ancient Egyptian culture for over three thousand years; used as monumental art, as a means of identifying Egyptianness, and for rarefied communication with the gods. In...

A poignant, moving essay collection on the longing and hope of living in diaspora and what it means to be Palestinian today, from the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of You Exist Too Much. Fewer and fewer Palestinians living in the diaspora today have direct experiences of their homeland...

A people without a country in a country at war. What drove a few thousand men and women from the deserts and cities of western China to the front lines of Syria’s war? Journalist Emily Feng unearths the untold story of Uyghur exiles who fled China’s expanding police state—only to become a...

A work of true crime following one American family’s search for answers after a 1984 murder in war-torn Beirut, where the Iranian revolution collided with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, setting off the geopolitical conflagration that burns to this day On January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr...

An immersive journey into the art of decipherment and the lost past that emerges when ancient scripts are brought back to life For centuries, the world’s earliest writing stood unread. Only through the work of decipherers did their languages begin to speak again, revealing lives that were long...

A revelatory and powerful testament of protest, courage, and imprisonment in America’s deportation regime ‘Are you Mahmoud Khalil?’ This was the question asked by ICE as they took the Palestinian student and U.S. legal resident from his pregnant wife and home in New York City, transported...

A sweeping and revelatory history of the hidden tradition of Jewish thinkers who opposed Zionism from Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser. In Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, Benjamin Moser uncovers a suppressed tradition that has shaped Jewish thought for generations. Through a cast of artists...

A sweeping and revelatory history of the hidden tradition of Jewish thinkers who opposed Zionism, from Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser. In Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, Benjamin Moser uncovers a suppressed tradition that has shaped Jewish thought for generations. Through a cast of artists...

At the time of the Taliban offensive, Hamdullah Mohib was the Afghan National Security Advisor, the closest man to the Afghan President, Ashraf Ghani. It was Mohib who took the decision to leave during the fall of the Afghan republic. Western journalists blamed the Afghan government for the...