Films and Documentaries

Between Two Crossings. By Yaser Murtaja, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dukDuxsSoNo

Flying Paper. By Nitin Sawhney and Roger Hill, 2013 http://flyingpaper.org/

Gaza Fights for Freedom. By Abby Martin, 2019 https://gazafightsforfreedom.com/

Gaza between Fire and Sea. By Karim Shah, Al Jazeera, 2018.https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2018/09/fire-sea-man-gaza-great- march-return-180923092246387.html

 Gaza in Context. United States, 2016.http://www.gazaincontext.com/film.html

 Hunger Strike. By Ashraf al-Masharawy, Aljazeera, 2014. https://remix.aljazeera.com/aje/PalestineRemix/hunger-strike.html#/16

 One Family in Gaza. Jen Marlowe, Donkeysaddle Projects. Last updated in 2019. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/one-family-in-gaza

 Where Should the Birds Fly. By Fida Qishta, 2013.http://whereshouldthebirdsfly.org/

Special Coverage and Websites

We Are Not Numbers: https://wearenotnumbers.org/

Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association: https://www.addameer.org/

Al Mezan Center for Human Rights: https://www.mezan.org/en/

Gaza Unlocked: http://www.gazaunlocked.org/

Gaza Blockade. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. https://www.ochaopt.org/theme/gaza-blockade

Gaza Siege. Electronic Intifada: https://electronicintifada.net/tags/gaza-siege

Gaza in Context: http://www.gazaincontext.com/

Palestinian Center for Human Rights: https://pchrgaza.org/en/

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of HumanitarianAffairs (OCHA): https://www.unocha.org

Visualizing Palestine: https://visualizingpalestine.org

Our Picks (organized alphabetically)

Abusalim, Jehad. "Letter from Gaza: 'Alive Due to Lack of Death'." Al Jazeera, 02 Sept. 2017. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/08/letter-gaza-alive-due-lack- death-170822091545913.html

Abusalim, Jehad, and Jennifer Bing, Michael Merryman-Lotze. Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, Chicago: Haymarket Books,2022.

Alareer, Refaat. Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine. Charlottesville: Just World Books, 2014.

Khalidi, Rashid. “Collective Punishment in Gaza.” The New Yorker, July 29, 2014. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/collective-punishment-gaza.

Matar, Dina, and Helga Tawil-Souri. Gaza as Metaphor. London: Hurst, 2016.

Sacco, Joe. Footnotes in Gaza. New York: Metropolitan Books. 2009.

Salaita, Steven. Uncivil rites: Palestine and the limits of academic freedom. London: Haymarket Books, 2015.

Shwaikh, Malaka “Translation in War-Zones.” in The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism. 2020, available online for free.

Shwaikh, Malaka. “The Dehumanizing Discourse of Resilience.” Harvard Progressive Policy Review, May 28, 2021, https://ppr.hkspublications.org/2021/05/28/resilience-discourse/

Yaghi, Rawan. "Gaza Screams for Life." The New York Times. The New York Times, 03 April 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/opinion/gaza-palestine-israel- protests.html

Online blogs

Abu Artema, Ahmed. "With the Great Return March, PalestiniansAre Demanding a Life of Dignity." The Nation. 18 April 2018. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/with-the- great-return-march-palestinians-are-demanding-a-life-of-dignity/.

Abusalim, Jehad. “Israel annexation plan: Why is Gaza missing from the conversation?” Middle East Eye, 6 July 2020. https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-annexation- gaza-missing-conversation.

Baconi, Tareq. “The Gaza March is a Wake-Up Call to theWorld.” The Guardian. 02 April 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/02/gaza-march- palestinians-israel.

Ekeland, Ivar and Sara Roy. “The New Politics of Exclusion:Gaza as Prologue” 15 October 2021. https://themarkaz.org/the-new-politics-of-exclusion-gaza-as-prologue/.

Niva, Steve. “Israel’s ‘Operation Mow the Lawn’.” Middle EastResearch and Information Project, December 7, 2012. http://www.merip.org/israels-operation-mow-lawn.

Shwaikh, Malaka. “There is No Such Thing as the Voiceless.” London School of Economics Blogs, May 12, 2021, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2021/05/12/there-is-no-such-thing-as-the-voiceless/.

Books

Barghouti, Omar. BDS: Boycott, divestment, sanctions: The global struggle for Palestinian rights. Haymarket Books, 2011.

Corrie, Rachel. Let me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie, New York: Norton, 2008 El-

Haddad, Laila. Gaza Mom Abridged Edition. Charlottesville: JustWorld Books, 2013.

Hill, Marc Lamont and Mitchell Plitnick. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. The New Press, 2021.

Filiu, Jean-Pierre. Gaza: A History. New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 2014.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth, Shwaikh, Malaka, Prison Hunger Strikes in Palestine: A Strategic Perspective, International Centre on Nonviolent Conflict, 2023.

Hajjar, Lisa. Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza. Oakland: University of California Press, 2005.

Khalidi, Rashid. The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.

Khalidi, Rashid. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017. Metropolitan Books, 2020.

Roy, Sara. The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine StudiesUSA, 2016.

Roy, Sara. Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Roy,

Sara. Unsilencing Gaza: Reflections on Resistance. London: PlutoPress, 2021.

Salaita, Steven. Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine. University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Salaita, Steven. Israel’s dead soul. Temple University Press, 2011. 

Sitta, Salman Abu, and Salman H. Abu-Sitta. Mapping my return: A Palestinian memoir. Oxford University Press, 2016.

Sorkin, Michael, and Deen Sharp, eds. Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope. The American University in Cairo Press, 2021.

Other academic peer-reviewed resources

Abu-Assab, Nour, Nasser-Eddin, Nof. “(Re)Centralising Palestine in Decolonial Feminist Theory” in Kohl: A Journal of Body and Gender Research 5, no. 1 (2019) at https://kohljournal.press/recentralising-palestine

Filiu, Jean-Pierre. “The Twelve Wars on Gaza.” Journal of Palestine Studies 44, no. 1 (2014): 52–60.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth, Shwaikh, Malaka, “The Palestinian Exception to Academic Freedom.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, Hawaii University Press. 2020.

Khalidi, Rashid. “Israel: A Carceral State” Journal of Palestine Studies 43, no. 4 (2014): 5-10.

Salaita, Steven. “American Indian studies and Palestine Solidarity: The importance of impetuous definitions” in Decolonization: Indegeneity, Education & Society 6, no. 1 (2017): 1-28.

Shwaikh, Malaka, “Narrative of Displacement in Gaza’s Oral History.” in An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba, edited by Nahla Abdo and Nur Masalha, Zed Books. 2018.

Shwaikh, Malaka “Beyond Expectations of Resilience: Towards a Language of Care.” Global Studies Quarterly, 2023, available at: https://academic.oup.com/isagsq/article/3/2/ksad030/7198303#408569867.

Shwaikh, Malaka “Prison Periods: Bodily Resistance to Gendered Control.” Journal of Feminist Scholarship, 20, no. 20 (2022).

Shwaikh, Malaka, “Engendering hunger strikes: Palestinian women in Israeli prisons.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 2020.

Shwaikh, Malaka, “The Dynamics of Prison-Based Hunger Strikes.” Jerusalem Quarterly. 2018.

Tabar, Linda and Desai, Chandni. “Decolonization is a global project: From Palestine to the Americas” in Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 6, no. 1 (2017): i-xix.

Tabar, Linda. “From Third World Internationalism to ‘the internationals’: the transformation of solidarity with Palestine” in Third World Quarterly 38, no. 2, (2017): 414-435.

Van Gils, Martijn, Shwaikh, Malaka. “Fighting without Weapons: Palestinian Documentary Films and Acts of Resistance.” Asian Affairs, 47, no. 3 (2016).

Various, 2014. Journal of Palestine Studies special issue on carcerality 43(4).