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240 pages
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ISBN 978-1-935982-22-7
Wrestling in the Daylight: A Rabbi's Path to Palestinian Solidarity
by Brant Rosen
Publication date: July 18, 2012
[We are now taking advance orders for this book at our webstore, and hope to ship the first copies in early June.] In 2006 Rabbi Brant Rosen, who serves a Jewish Reconstructionist congregation in Evanston, Illinois, launched a blog called Shalom Rav, in which he explored a broad range of social-justice issues. The focus of his writing—and his activism—changed dramatically in December 2008, when Israel launched a wide, 23-day military attack against Gaza, causing him to deeply question his lifelong liberal Zionism. Unlike the biblical Jacob, who wrestled in the dark of night at a crucial turning point in his life, Rabbi Rosen chose to make his struggle public: to wrestle in the daylight. Over the two years that followed, Shalom Rav became a public and always highly readable record of his journey from liberal Zionist to active and visionary Palestinian solidarity activist. Wrestling in the Daylight: A Rabbi’s Path to Palestinian Solidarity is Rosen’s self-curated compilation of these blog posts.
300 pages
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ISBN 978-1-935982-20-3
Watches Without Time: An American Soldier in Afghanistan
by Matt Zeller
Publication date: July 4, 2012
223 pages
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ISBN 978-1-935982-15-9
The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine
by Miko Peled
Publication date: June 15, 2012
We are taking orders for this book at our new, secure webstore. Advance orders are already shipping out to purchasers worldwide from our distribution hubs in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia.In 1997, a tragedy struck the family of Israeli-American Miko Peled: His beloved niece Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem. That tragedy propelled Peled onto a journey of discovery. It pushed him to re-examine many of the beliefs he had grown up with, as the son and grandson of leading figures in Israel's political-military elite, and transformed him into a courageous and visionary activist in the struggle for human rights and a hopeful, lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Esteemed African-American author Alice Walker has contributed a very moving and thoughtful Foreword to The General's Son.
337 pages
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ISBN 978-1-935982-16-6
The Tragedy of Lebanon: Christian Warlords, Israeli Adventurers, and American Bunglers
by Jonathan Randal
Publication date: May 22, 2012
The Tragedy of Lebanon is a reissue of Jonathan Randal's widely acclaimed 1983 study of the rightwing Christian militias in Lebanon that in 1975 launched a bloody bid for power that plunged the country into a decades-long cycle of war and civil conflict. For this 2012 reissue, Randal has added a piercing new Preface that reflects on the meaning of those events, both then and today. We have also used the same main title used in the British version of the book, rather than the main title in the original U.S. version, "Going All the Way"-- a title that, as Randal reveals in the new Preface, was suggested to him in a Beirut bar by none other than John le Carré.
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ISBN 978-1-935982-10-4
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ISBN 978-1-935982-12-8
Troubled Triangle: The United States, Turkey, and Israel in the New Middle East
by William B. Quandt, Editor
Publication date: November 7, 2011
Since early 2009, it has seemed that the once-warm relations between Turkey and Israel have reached crisis point. To complicate matters further, both countries are close partners of the United States. In this timely title, a group of leading scholar-practitioners from all three countries jointly explore this crisis.
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60 pages
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ISBN 978-1-935982-09-8
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ISBN 978-1-935982-08-1
War Diary: Lebanon 2006
by Rami Zurayk
Publication date: August 11, 2011
What was it like to live in Beirut during the Israel-Lebanon war of 2006? Lebanese agronomy professor and social activist Rami Zurayk spent the whole war in Beirut with his family. War Diary: Lebanon 2006 is his record of the 33-day-long onslaught.
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250 pages
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ISBN 978-1-935982-19-7
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ISBN 978-1-935982-14-2
Food, Farming, and Freedom: Sowing the Arab Spring
by Rami Zurayk
Publication date: June 14, 2011
The wave of anti-government protests that swept through the Arab world from December 2010 on is transforming politics and society in the Middle East. The protests came as a surprise to many observers-- but not to Rami Zurayk, an experienced Lebanese agronomist and social activist who had been charting the collapse of traditional agricultural livelihoods in the Middle East since the late 1980s.
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ISBN 978-1-935982-06-7
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ISBN 978-1-935982-13-5
Where the Wild Frontiers Are: Pakistan and the American Imagination
by Manan Ahmed
Publication date: May 31, 2011
In recent years, Pakistan has assumed increasing importance in American thinking as the place in which Washington's "AfPak" policy has became worryingly mired. But Pakistan's 175 million people have had their own history throughout these years, too: a history that was complex, enthralling, infuriating, and inspiring-- sometimes, all at once. How lucky, then, that we now have Manan Ahmed to guide us into the intricacies of the imbroglio between these two complicated countries.
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ISBN 978-1-935982-03-6
A Responsible End? The United States and the Iraqi Transition, 2005-2010
by Reidar Visser
Publication date: November 30, 2010
Visser's book A Responsible End? The United States and the Iraqi Transition, 2005-2010 is an author-curated and -guided compilation of this brilliant researcher's best shorter texts, brought together within a single cover for the first time from various sources-- on his blog, his Historiae website, on the History News Network, and elsewhere.
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ISBN 978-1-935982-02-9
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ISBN 978-1-935982-07-4
Afghanistan Journal: Selections from Registan.net
by Joshua Foust
Publication date: November 15, 2010
"The coldest I have ever been in my life was in the mountains of Afghanistan. I was in a helicopter with the windows and doors open. It was dark, the middle of winter, and I wasn’t wearing a jacket. But up there, something became clear to me: America is fighting its wars all wrong... "
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ISBN 978-1-935982-17-3
Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between
by Laila El-Haddad
Publication date: November 15, 2010
With Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between, El-Haddad takes us into the life and world of a busy Palestinian journalist who is both covering the story of Gaza and living it—very intensely. This book is El-Haddad’s self-curated choice of the best of her writings from December 2004 through July 2010. She was in Gaza City in 2005, watching hopefully as the Israelis prepared their withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. She covered the January 2006 Palestinian elections—judged ‘free and fair’ by all international monitors. But then, she watched aghast as the Israeli government, backed by the Bush administration, moved in to punish Gaza’s 1.5 million people for the way they had voted by throwing a tough siege around the Strip.
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ISBN 978-1-935982-04-3
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ISBN 978-1-935982-18-0
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ISBN 978-1-935982-11-1
America's Misadventures in the Middle East
by Chas W. Freeman, Jr.
Publication date: October 6, 2010
Amb. Chas W. Freeman Jr. is one of America's most seasoned and thoughtful diplomatists. In March 2009, he became briefly famous when pro-Israel activists raised a furor about Pres. Obama's decision to invite him to head the National Intelligence Council (NIC). Seeking to save Obama from embarrassment, Freeman withdrew his name from consideration. Now, with the publication of this book, Freeman has pulled together most of his previous writings about the part of the world that got him into so much trouble in 2009.
