Order The General's Son by Miko Peled Now!
Posted by Helena Cobban on November 22, 2011
Just World Books is pleased to announce that we are now accepting advance orders for our upcoming title by Miko Peled: The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. We expect to ship these copies at the end of February so please order your copy now, at a special discount of only $16.00. (Use our PDF or Word forms for this.) With this offer, if you order five copies, you'll get an extra one free. The offer has been extended so it runs through January 16, 2012, and sadly is only available in the USA. Peled's groundbreaking memoir chronicles his journey as the son and grandson of renowned Israeli leaders and pioneers who, in his own life, has become committed to building a single democratic state in Israel/Palestine in which Palestinians and Israelis will all enjoy full equality.
Miko Peled was born and raised in Jerusalem. He was inspired by his parents to engage in a life of peace activism. His father, Matti Peled, served as an officer in the 1948 War and during the 1967 war was a high-ranking (and politically very well-connected) general. While his father was away in battle in 1948, his mother was offered a house belonging to Palestinians who had fled as refugees-- but, he noted, she refused this offer, on principle. Both his parents also strongly advocated the values of secular democracy, a message that Peled still carries on today in his work.
Peled's book will present to wide new audiences his compelling testimony and reflections upon such topics as his upbringing in West Jerusalem, his army service, his niece's death by a suicide bombing, and his arrest in a nonviolent Palestinian protest. It will also offer insight into how the present, long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict might be transformed into an opportunity for one democratic state for all. For more background and context, see these two excellent video interviews with Peled: "The General's Son" and "The Return of the General's Son."
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"Gaza Mom": An inspired gift for Moms, Dads, or Grads!
What could make a better gift for a Mom, a Dad, or a new Graduate in your life than a copy of Laila El-Haddad's engaging, informative, and often wryly funny Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between? You can order your gift copy of copies of El-Haddad's fine book here. El-Haddad has been a busy woman lately! Recently she was seen speaking around the state of Colorado under the auspices of the friends of Sabeel... and last month she was discussing the fate of Palestinian refugees on Al Jazeera's "The Stream" program... Meanwhile, anticipation of her upcoming book with fellow writer and photographer Maggie Schmitt, The Gaza Kitchen cookbook, has been on the rise as well. The National recently wrote a glowing preview of their cookbook, where El-Haddad explained the motivation behind this much-awaited JWB publication:
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Fabulous JWB author events, coming up!
Two of our great Spring 2012 authors, Miko Peled and Jon Randal, have some great book events coming up! If you live in Southern California, Washington DC, or New York, then you'll have a chance to see one of them soon. Peled is speaking to a hometown audience in Coronado, CA, this Thursday, at 6:30 pm, about his fabulous book The General's Son. Randal, who nowadays calls Paris, will be speaking about The Tragedy of Lebanon (and of the Palestinians who got caught up in Lebanon's punishing civil war) at two public events in Washington, DC: an evening event on Tuesday, May 8, and a noon-time event on Wednesday, May 9. Check back for details... Then on Friday, May 11, he'll be speaking at this excellent 10:30 am event in New York, right next to the U.N. building.
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At the webstore: Special Lebanon package-- and many price reductions!
Tell your friends about the two great new deals we're offering customers at the JWB webstore. Firstly, we're offering a new 'Witness to War in Lebanon' package that brings you two great titles for only $25 (a saving of $7 over buying them separately.) More details, below... Secondly, we've instituted longterm price reductions on a number of paperback titles for customers residing in all areas other than the United States or United Kingdom. For example, check out the prices we're now offering these customers for Laila El-Haddad's Gaza Mom (now $26), or Rami Zurayk's Food Farming and Freedom (now $25.) Prices for customers in the U.S. and U.K. remain at their previously existing low (bargain!) levels.
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Helena Cobban speaks, brings JWB books to North Carolina, April 15-18
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Six JWB ebook titles now on sale at webstore!
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Taking orders now for Matt Zeller's 'Watches Without Time'
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Miko Peled's "The General's Son": Shipping now, and excerpts at Mondoweiss!
We are pleased to announce that Miko Peled's memoir The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine is in print and orders are being fulfilled. If you placed an advance order, then your copy is being shipped. If you haven't placed an order yet, you can go to the JWB webstore and buy your copy now. Also, the renowned blog on Middle East affairs, Mondoweiss, has published an exclusive and extensive excerpt from the book. We are so proud of how The General's Son has turned out and we are excited to help Peled share his arresting story with the world.
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Soli Özel of 'Troubled Triangle' talks about Turkey's regional role
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Jon Randal's 'Tragedy of Lebanon': A timely re-issue amid regional turmoil
Amid daily reports that now link the rising violence in Syria with networks and groups in Lebanon, Just World Books is delighted to be publishing a timely re-issue of Jon Randal's acclaimed 1983 study of the rise and activities of the extreme rightwing Christian in Lebanon. The new volume is titled The Tragedy of Lebanon: Christian Warlords, Israeli Adventurers, and American Bunglers. (The earlier edition was published in the United States under the slightly unfortunate title "Going All the Way"-- a moniker that, Randal now tells us in the thoughtful, all-new Preface to the current volume, was first suggested to him by John Le Carré.) Randal's poignant and still fresh recounting of the devastation wrought during the Lebanese Civil War is now available online for purchase in advance of publication, with free shipping offered until February 29.
