Undergraduate Module Descriptor

ARA2135: Conflict and Peacemaking Palestine/Israel

This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Ilan Pappe, (2006). The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Oxford: One World.

Shlaim, Avi (2000). The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, Penguin Books. P.1-27

David Hirst (2003). The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East. Faber and Farber.

Khalidi, R. (2006) The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle For Statehood, Boston: Beacon Press. P.1-30

Sayigh, R. (2007) “The Uprooting” in: The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries, London: Zed Books.      

Shohat, E. (1988). Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the standpoint of its Jewish victims. Social Text, (19/20), 1-35.

Naser-Najjab, N., & Khatib, G., 2019. The First Intifada, Settler Colonialism, and 21st Century Prospects for Collective Resistance. The Middle East Journal, 73(2), 187-206.

Savir, Uri, 1998. The process: 1,100 days that changed the Middle East. New York:  Random House.