![“Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family’s Story of Home” by Fida Jiryis [Book Review]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/stranger-in-my-own-land-1183647562.jpeg)
by Sam Bahour | September 8, 2022 | Books, Recommended!, Writings
I am ecstatic to be able to share with you the first review of the forthcoming book, Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family’s Story of Home, by Fida Jiryis. It was published in Le Monde diplomatique (English edition), September 2022 Issue, as part of their Palestine special report. For over a decade, I witnessed the making of this landmark memoir from concept to publishing. All I can say is R-E-S-P-E-C-T to the author and publisher. Order your copy today; this is not one to be missed!
![Palestinian refugees are Israel’s Achilles heel [Book Review]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/the-war-of-return-adi-schwartz-einat-wilf.png)
by Sam Bahour | May 1, 2020 | Books, Writings
The book is a long-winded frontal attack on Palestinian refugees and reads more as a commissioned assignment from the Hasbara-hub called the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs than a truly deep analysis of the issue of Palestinian refugees. What is missing from the book is as important as what is in it—all the other references that Palestinians’ Right of Return is based on, above and beyond the single one, UN General Assembly 194, that the authors pin their entire argument around.
![“Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews, and the Search for Peace in the Holy Land” [Book Review]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/fatal-embrace-mark-braverman.jpg)
by Sam Bahour | April 20, 2011 | Books, Writings
Reviewed for The Jewish Post & News (Winnipeg, Canada). Braverman is unequivocal in his judgment that Israel’s ongoing destruction of Palestine, which he portrays throughout with brutal honesty, is also destroying Israel itself. His urgent call for more effective interfaith and diplomatic intervention from outsiders is clearly aimed at rescuing Israelis as well as Palestinians. Just one example, quoting from something he wrote in 2008: “Israel’s policy, remarkably consistent and relentless…, to obtain complete political and economic control of all of Palestine, is killing Israel—its young people, its economy, its soul, its very future.”
![“Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Disappearing Landscape” by Raja Shehadeh [Book Review]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/palestinian-walks-raja-shehadeh.jpg)
by James Zogby | July 19, 2008 | Books
The simple things in life, like one’s relation to a landscape, are what are being effaced by the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Raja Shehadeh is one of Palestine’s leading writers. He is also a lawyer and the founder of the pioneering Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq. “Raja Shehadeh’s Palestinian Walks provides a rare historical insight into the tragic changes taking place in Palestine.” – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
![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)