Palestine Reading List

This collection of books, articles, and excerpts was put together by Abbasi Program affiliate Professor Joel Beinin (Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University) as a resource for anyone looking to learn and read more.

Nathan Thrall,

• The Separate Regimes Delusion

• A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

Charles Smith

• Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents

James Gelvin

• The Israel-Palestine Conflict

Rashid Khalidi, 

• Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness

• The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood

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

Guy Laron

• The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East

Gershom Gorenberg

• The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of Settlements, 1967-1977

Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir

• The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine

Avi Shlaim

• The Iron Wall

Gershon Shafir

• Zionism and Colonialism: A Comparative Approach

Zachary Lockman

• Land, Labor and the Logic of Zionism: A Critical Engagement with Gershon Shafir

Jonathan Schneer

• The Balfour Declaration

Shira Robinson

• Citizen Strangers

Tareq Baconi

• Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance