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Since 1948, the idea of Zionism has been the cornerstone of Israel's identity, its politics and its actions. In this groundbreaking new history, Ilan Pappe looks at the role of how the idea of Israel itself was created through history, film and...
Judith Butler follows Edward Said's late suggestion that through a consideration of Palestinian dispossession in relation to Jewish diasporic traditions a new ethos can be forged for a one-state solution. Butler engages Jewish philosophical...
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EPL Guest Picks: Celebrating Islamic History Month
"This reading list was compiled by IslamicFamily, an award winning Edmonton based social change organisation. For more than 30 years, IslamicFamily has been driven to disrupt systemic inequity, to reflect a rich tradition with beauty, to innovate a..."
Teasing, provocative, and very funny, Mohammed Hanif's debut novel takes one of the subcontinent's enduring mysteries and out if it spins a tale as rich and colourful as a beggar's dream. Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest plane,...
The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the Muqaddima Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of...