Bibliography for Living Stones Pilgrimage Participants *Indicates authors or book subjects we will meet during our pilgrimage.
Non-Fiction
Abuelaish, Izzeldin. I Shall Not Hate: A Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity. NY: Bloomsbury USA, 2010.
Armstrong, Karen. Jerusalem. Ballantine Books, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Braverman, Mark. A Wall in Jerusalem; Hope, Healing and the Struggle for Justice in Israel and Palestine. NY: Jericho Books, 2013.
Carter, Jimmy. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
*Chacour, Elias. Blood Brothers. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Chosen Books, 2003, updated.
*Chacour, Elias. We Belong to the Land. South Bend, Indiana: Notre Dame Press, 2001, updated.
Ehrenreich, Ben. The Way to the Spring; Life and Death in Palestine. NY: Penguin Press, 2016
Khalidi, Rashid. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance: 1917-2017. Metropolitan Books, 2020.
Pappe, Ilan. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oxford: One World, 2006.
Peled, Miko. The General’s Son; Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2012.
*Raheb, Mitri. Bethlehem Besieged: Stories of Hope in Times of Trouble. Fortress Press, 2004.
*Raheb, Mitri. Faith in the Face of Empire; the Bible through Palestinian Eyes. Maryknoll, N Y: Orbis Books, 2014.
Rosen, Brant. Wrestling in the Daylight; a Rabbi’s Path to Palestinian Solidarity. Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2012.
Tolan, Sandy. Children of the Stone: the Power of Music. NY: Bloomsbury USA, 2014
Tolan, Sandy. The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East. NY: Bloomsbury USA, 2007
Fiction
*McCann, Colum, Apeirogon: A Novel, Random House, 2020. (Fiction, but based on real life-stories. We will likely meet one of the main characters in this book, Rami Elhanan.)
Nye, Naomi Shihab. Habibi. Simon Pulse, 1999 (young adult book)
Barakat, Ibtisam. Tasting the Sky. FarrarStrausGiroux, 2007 (young adult book)
Poetry
Abulhawa, Susan. My Voice Sought the Wind. Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2013
Darwish, Mahmoud. Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems. Trans. and ed. Munir Akash and Carolyn Forche. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013
Muhammad Ali, Taha. So What: New & Selected Poems, 1971– 2005, Trans. Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2006. 2
Documentary Films (google a title for information on how to watch)
Anna’s Children
Five Broken Cameras
On the Side of the Road
Roadmap to Apartheid
Israel Palestine Conflict 101
Life in Occupied Palestine
Occupation 101
Naila and the Uprising
Voices Across the Divide
Where Should the Birds Fly?
The Wanted 18
Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine
The Stones Cry Out
Budrus
Imprisoning a Generation
On-Line Alternative News Sources
The Foundation for Middle East Peace: “What We’re Reading.” Sign up to receive an on-line news publication covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Sign up to receive daily email summary of that day’s articles. https://fmep.org/subscribe/
Mondoweiss: Begun in 2006; an on-line news website devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle East, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective. Sign up to receive daily email summary of that day’s articles. https://mondoweiss.net
Some Important Websites
American Muslims for Palestine: www.ampalestine.org
*Community Peacemaker Teams Hebron: https://cpt.org/work/palestine/hebron/about
Foundation for Middle East Peace: https://fmep.org
Israel/Palestine Mission Network, Presbyterian Church USA http://new.israelpalestinemissionnetwork.org
Jewish Voice for Peace https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org
Meeting Peacemakers Tours: https://meetingpeacemakers.com
Middle East Children’s Alliance: www.mecaforpeace.org
Mondoweiss: http://mondoweiss.net
*Pilgrims of Ibillin: www.pilgrimsofibillin.org
UCC Palestine Israel Network: www.uccpalestineisraelnetwork.org
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights: https://uscpr.org
YouTube
Mondoweiss: Inside Israeli Apartheid (22 min.)
*Building Peace on Desktops (12 minute video about the Mar Elias Schools in Ibillin founded by Fr. Elias Chacour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eoQ9stT7HU
*Building Peace on Desktops (2-1/2 minute short version of same video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i7_eJ7VFQ8
Jewish Voice for Peace: Israeli Palestinian conflict explained: an animated introduction to Israel and Palestine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y58njT2oXfE
Rick Steves’ The Holy Land: Israelis and Palestinians Today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg1unr6eNpQ
Mark Braverman, How to Be a Jew after the Nakba, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4IpKNMuDGI
Miko Peled, The General’s Son, Alternate Focus, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ZfnpN4Dfc