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Palestinian writing imagines the nation, not as a nation-in-waiting but as a living, changing structure that joins people, place, and time into a distinct set of formations. Novel Palestine: Nation through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah examines these imaginative structures so that we might move bey

UC Press publishes numerous titles that center Palestinians and contribute to globalizing knowledge about the Palestinians in and beyond Palestine. In addition to the open-access series New Directions in Palestinian Studies, UC Press has several titles that inform and broaden the conversation on Pal

New Directions in Palestinian Studies book series, the first of its kind in the United States, solicits rigorous and innovative manuscripts that put Palestinians at the center of knowledge production projects. It accepts proposals from all disciplines in the humanities and the interpretive social sc

In their new book, Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire, scholars Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini chronicle the chilling global history of human shields. From Syrian civilians locked in iron cages to veterans joining peaceful indigenous water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux R