A Land With a People is a collection of personal stories, history, poetry, and art that elevates rarely heard Palestinian and Jewish voices and visions. Eloquently framed with a foreword by the dynamic Palestinian legal scholar and activist, Noura Erakat, this book began as a storytelling project of Jewish Voice for Peace-New York City and subsequently transformed into a theater project performed throughout the New York City area.

Stories touch hearts, open minds, and transform our understanding of the “other”―as well as our comprehension of own roles and responsibilities. A Land With a People emerges from this reckoning, bringing us the narratives of secular, Muslim, Christian, and queer Palestinians who endure the particular brand of settler colonialism known as Zionism. It relays the transformational journeys of Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, queer, and Palestinian Jews who have come to reject the received Zionist narrative.

Unflinching in their confrontation of the power dynamics that underlie their transformation process, these writers find the courage to face what has happened to historic Palestine, and to their own families as a result. Contextualized by a detailed historical introduction and timeline charting 150 years of Palestinian and Jewish resistance to Zionism, this collection will stir emotions, provoke fresh thinking, and point to a more hopeful, loving future―one in which Palestine/Israel is seen for what it is in its entirety, as well as for what it can be.

The age of transnational humanities has arrived.

According to Steven Salaita, the seemingly disparate fields of Palestinian Studies and American Indian Studies have more in common than one may think. In Inter/Nationalism, Salaita argues that American Indian and Indigenous studies must be more central to the scholarship and activism focusing on Palestine.

Salaita offers a fascinating inside account of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement—which, among other things, aims to end Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land. In doing so, he emphasizes BDS’s significant potential as an organizing entity as well as its importance in the creation of intellectual and political communities that put Natives and other colonized peoples such as Palestinians into conversation.

His discussion includes readings of a wide range of Native poetry that invokes Palestine as a theme or symbol; the speeches of U.S. President Andrew Jackson and early Zionist thinker Ze’ev Jabotinsky; and the discourses of “shared values” between the United States and Israel.

Inter/Nationalism seeks to lay conceptual ground between American Indian and Indigenous studies and Palestinian studies through concepts of settler colonialism, indigeneity, and state violence. By establishing Palestine as an indigenous nation under colonial occupation, this book draws crucial connections between the scholarship and activism of Indigenous America and Palestine.

Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, propagated by human rights groups, that Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this conclusion.

An anthropologist who has been writing about Arab women for thirty years, she delves into the predicaments of Muslim women today, questioning whether generalizations about Islamic culture can explain the hardships these women face, and asking what motivates particular individuals and institutions to promote their rights.

In recent years, Abu-Lughod has struggled to reconcile the popular image of women victimized by Islam with the complex women she has known through her research in various communities in the Muslim world. Here, she renders that divide vivid by presenting detailed vignettes of the lives of ordinary Muslim women and showing that the problem of gender inequality cannot be laid at the feet of religion alone.

Poverty and authoritarianism—conditions not unique to the Islamic world, and produced out of global interconnections that implicate the West—are often more decisive. The standard Western vocabulary of oppression, choice, and freedom is too blunt to describe these women's lives.

Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam, as well as a moving portrait of women's actual experiences and the contingencies with which they live.

By turns inspiring and heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is Izzeldin Abuelaish's account of an extraordinary life. A Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Abuelaish has been crossing the lines in the sand that divide Israelis and Palestinians for most of his life.

As a physician who treats patients on both sides of the line, and as a humanitarian who sees the need for improved health and education for women as the way forward in the Middle East, Abuelaish's work is profound. Most recently, as the father whose daughters were killed by Israeli soldiers on January 16, 2009, during Israel's incursion into the Gaza Strip, his response to this tragedy made news around the world.

Instead of seeking revenge or sinking into hatred, Abuelaish called for the people in the region to start talking to each other. His deepest hope is that his daughters will be "the last sacrifice on the road to peace between Palestinians and Israelis."

Mayada, Daughter of Iraq is a gripping tale of courage and resilience amidst the harrowing conditions of Saddam Hussein's regime. A member of one of the most distinguished and honored families in Iraq, Mayada grew up surrounded by wealth and royalty. However, her life took a drastic turn when she was unjustly thrown into cell 52 in the infamous Baladiyat prison.

Alongside seventeen other nameless, faceless women from all walks of life, Mayada endured unimaginable hardship. To ease their suffering, these "shadow women" shared their life stories, creating a tapestry of hope and solidarity amidst despair.

Through the powerful narrative of Jean Sasson, Mayada finally shares her story—and theirs—with the world. This book offers a poignant glimpse into the cruelty and hardship endured by generations of Iraqis, highlighting the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity.

The History of the Qur’anic Text provides unique insights into the Qur’an’s immaculate preservation throughout its history. With full color images, it meticulously covers topics such as how divine revelations were received and the Prophet Muhammad’s role in teaching and disseminating these verses. It explores the text’s compilation under his guidance and the setting of its final shape shortly after his death.

Additionally, the book delves into the origins of Arabic, its palaeography and orthography, and the strict methodology employed in assembling textual fragments. This scholarly work is an essential basis for sincere study of the Qur’an, especially in a time when misrepresentation of Islam’s Holy Book has become common.

The author also investigates the histories of the Old and New Testaments, relying entirely on Judeo-Christian sources. Through this, he makes a sophisticated and passionate case for questioning the aims of Western scholarship towards Islam’s Holy Book, illustrating convincingly that such research has no scientific bearing on the Qur’an’s integrity.

This is a truly monumental effort and an indispensable tool for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. It presents a cogent and powerful argument for the Qur’an’s unique inviolability and will serve as a cornerstone addition to any personal library and Islamic curriculum.

The Road to Mecca is an extraordinary and beautifully written autobiography by Muhammad Asad. This compelling narrative takes readers on a journey through Asad's initial rejection of all institutional religions, his exploration into Taoism, and his fascinating travels as a diplomat.

Part spiritual autobiography, part summary of the author's intuitive insights into Islam and the Arabs, and part an impressive travelogue, this book is punctuated with abundant adventure, moments of contemplation, colorful narrative, brilliant description, and lively anecdote.

Above all, it tells a human story—a story of a modern man's restlessness and loneliness, passions and ambitions, joys and sorrows, anxiety and commitment, vision and humaneness. It can be read on many levels: as a eulogy to a lost world, and as the poignant account of a man's search for meaning. It is also a love story, defying convention and steeped in loss.

With its evocative descriptions and profound insights on the Islamic world, The Road to Mecca is a work of immense value today.

معماى هويدا delves into the enthralling life and tragic death of Amir Abbas Hoveyda, a central figure in Iran's historic struggle between modernity and tradition. This struggle pitted Western cosmopolitanism against Persian isolationism, secularism against religious fundamentalism, and ultimately civil society and democracy against authoritarianism.

Explore the life of Hoveyda, set against the backdrop of a nation grappling with its identity. The Persian Sphinx is biography at its most powerful, reading like a modern-day Shakespearean tragedy. It offers insights into the political and cultural upheavals that led to the fundamentalist revolution in Iran, rewarding both the general reader and the scholar alike.