Literature/poetry/memoirs
- Abu Toha, Mosab. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear : Poems from Gaza. City Lights Books, 2022
- Abusalim, Jehad, et al., editors. Light in Gaza : Writings Born of Fire. Haymarket Books, 2022
- Alareer, Refaat, editor. Gaza Writes Back : Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine. Just World Books, 2014
- Alshaer, Atef, editor. A Map of Absence : An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba. Saqi Books, 2019
- Hammad, Suheir. ZaatarDiva. 1st ed, Cypher, 2005.
- Hass, Amira. Drinking the Sea at Gaza : Days and Nights in a Land under Siege. Hamish Hamilton, 1999
- Kanafani, Ghassan, “Letter from Gaza“, in The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine by the Tricontinental Society of London in 1980
- Karmi, Ghada. In Search of Fatima : A Palestinian Story. Verso, 2002.
- Morrison, Alan, and Atef Alshaer, editors. Out of Gaza : New Palestinian Poetry. Smokestack Books, 2024
- New Poetry from Gaza, Words Surviving Siege and War: Poems from Gaza, by Mosab Abu Toha, Peripheries Journal,
- Shehadeh, Raja. Palestinian Walks : Forays into a Vanishing Landscape. Scribner, 2008
- Shiblī. ʻAdanīyah, Minor Detail. New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2020Documentaries/Cinema
Cinema, documentaries and films:
- Dabashi, Hamid. and Said, Edward (preface), Dreams of a Nation : [On Palestinian Cinema], Verso, 2006
- Dreams of a Nation : a Palestinian film project, Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University, 2013
- Holmquist, PeA, et al. Gaza Ghetto : Portrait of a Palestinian Family, 1948-1984. New Day Films, 1994
- Jacir, Annemarie, Like Twenty Impossibles. Philistine Films, 2004.
- Al Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948, by Benny Bruner:, 1997
- Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe – Episodes 1-5 ; Al Jazeera series, 2013
- Palestinian Films collection, 1976-2008, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University
- Suleiman, Elia, Chronicle of a disappearance, Kino on Video, 2005.
- Schwarz, Alon, Tantura, Journeyman Pictures, 2022
See also: Q&A with director and discussion.
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