News & opinions from a Palestinian-American
living & working in Ramallah/Al-Bireh, Palestine
Books Sam Bahour edited, contributed chapters to, or is profiled in.
5 post/s found with this tag.![“Peacemakers in Israel-Palestine: Dialogues for a Just Peace” [Recommended]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Peacemakers-in-Israel-Palestine.jpg)
Featuring a chapter by Sam, “Peacemakers in Israel-Palestine aims to analyze the crucial roles and capacities of mid-level, nongovernmental peacemakers as they provide unique approaches to transforming the Israel-Palestinian conflict. It also aims to analyze and experience dialogue as the primary mode of peacemaking communication.
![Foreign Perceptions of the United States under Donald Trump [Recommended]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/foreign-perceptions-of-the-united-states-under-donald-trump-book.jpg)
Featuring a chapter by Sam. “President Donald Trump’s term in office significantly affected the way the United States is seen by other nations in the international setting. This book presents 18 case studies of the effect of Trump policies and behavior on the U.S. standing abroad, and examines the long-term consequences of these effects.” A big hats off to Professor Gregory Mahler, Research Professor of Politics and Academic Dean Emeritus at Earlham College, as well as to all the distinguished fellow contributors from around the world.
![“Moment of Truth: Tackling Israel-Palestine’s Toughest Questions” edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner, featuring a chapter by Sam [Recommended]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/moment-of-truth-front-cover.jpg)
Moment of Truth: Tackling Israel-Palestine’s Toughest Questions seeks to clarify what it would take to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict, to assess the prospects of doing so, and to illuminate what is possible in Palestine. It assembles an unprecedented wealth of expertise-encompassing political leaders, preeminent scholars, and dedicated activists from Israel, Palestine, and abroad-in direct critical exchange on the issues at the heart of the world’s most intractable conflict.
![Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation [Recommended]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/KingdomofOlivesandAsh-708468-1.jpg)
Proud to have contributed in several ways to this book project. Actually, it’s much more than a book project as you will see by who the authors are and what their riveting stories reveal.
![“Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians” [Recommended]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/home-land-oral-histories.jpg)
Edited by Staughton Lynd, Sam Bahour, and Alice Lynd Throughout the world Palestinians have often been viewed through narrow prisms of “terrorists” or “victims.” This comprehensive collection of oral histories brings to life generations of Palestinians, those living in the occupied territories as well as those in the far-flung exile of the Palestinian diaspora. The authors traveled throughout Israel and the occupied territories to find the multi-generational families living in towns, villages and refugee camps whose voices resonate in Homeland. These are the stories of loss, of exile, of remembering.
![Support Palestinian women writers! "Al-Khawaja"—a new book release in Arabic from Fida Jiryis [Recommended]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/khawaja-anthology-fida-jiryis-980x1400.png)