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READ
Educational Digital Spaces
- The Palestine Academy
- Teach Palestine
- Decolonize Palestine - Palestine 101 + Myths Database
Architectural Context: history of apartheid, architecture’s role in it, and resilience through art
- Architecture of Resistance: cultivating moments of possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli conflict by Yara Sharif (Available for the TMU community through RULA)
- Preserving ‘the Enemy’s’ architecture: preservation and gentrification in a formerly Palestinian Jerusalem neighbourhood by Hila Zaban (Available for the TMU community through RULA)
- Inside Checkpoint 300: Checkpoint Regimes as Spatial Political Technologies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories by Alexandra Rijke and Claudio Minca (Available for TMU community through RULA)
- Hollow Land by Eyal Weizman
- Atlas of the Conflict by Malkit Shoshan
- Forensic Architecture Investigations
- Visualizing Palestine
- DAAR - Decolonizing Art Architecture Research
- The Funambulist Magazine, Issue 27: Learning with Palestine
General Information: context + political movements + history
- Violence, nonviolence and the Palestinian national movement by Wendy Pearlman (Available for the TMU community through RULA)
- Israel/Palestine: border representations in literature and film by Drew Paul (Available for the TMU community through RULA)
- Erasing Palestine: free speech and Palestinian freedom by Rebecca Ruth Gould (Available for the TMU community through RULA)
- Hundred Years War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé
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On Palestine by Ilan Pappé and Noam Chomsky
- Gaza in Crisis by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappeé (Edited by Frank Barat) Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky
- Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims by Edward Said
- Black Power and Palestine by Michael Fischbach
- Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
- Palestine: A Four-Thousand Year History by Nur-eldeen Masalha
- Memory, Inequality, and Power: Palestine and the Universality of Human Rights by Edward Said
- The Question of Palestine by Edward Said
- Orientalism by Edward Said
- Palestine by Joe Sacco
- Justice for Some by Noura Erakat
- The Battle for Justice in Palestine by Ali Abunimah
- Palestine: a Socialist Introduction by Sumaya Awad
- The Palestine Communist Party 1919 - 1948 by Musa Budeiri
- Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights by Omar Barghouti
- False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine by Tikva Honig-Parnass
- The Battle for Justice in Palestine by Ali Abunimah
- Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom by Steven Salaita
- Apartheid Israel: the Politics of an Analogy by Jon Soske and Sean Jocobs
- On Edward Said: Remembrance of Things Past by Hamid Dabashi
Fiction
- Palestine by Hubert Haddad and Pierre L'Abbé (Available for the TMU community through RULA)
Reading Lists
- Haymarket Books - Free Palestine! Starter Kit + Free Palestine! A Reading List
- Versi Books - Free Palestine: A Verso Reading List
- Saqi - Recommended Reading about Palestine
WATCH
- Jerusalem: A Rock and A Hard Place (Two-part documentary special from Al Jazeera English)
- Al-Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe (series from Al Jazeera English)
- Born in Gaza (documentary film directed by Hernán Zin, 2014)
- Farha (historical drama film directed by Darin J. Sallam, 2021)
- The Present (short film directed by Farah Nabulsi, 2020)
- The Nightmare of Gaza (directed by directed by Farah Nabulsi, 2018)
- My Neighbourhood (documentary by Julia Bacha and Rebekah Wingert-Jabi, 2012)
- Nalia and the Uprising (animation film directed by Julia Bacha, 2017)
- Budrus (directed by Julia Bacha, 2009)
- A Few Crumbs for the Birds (directed by Annemarie Jacir & Nassim Amaouche, 2012)
- Trip Along Exodus (directed by Hind Shofani, 2015)
- Palestine Underground (by Boiler Room Ramallah, 2018)
- Epicly Palestine’d (by Philip Joa and Theo Krish, 2015)
- Watch List by Reel Palestine - Home Edition
- Watch List by Another Screen - For a Free Palestine: Films by Palestinian Women
LISTEN
- All Things Palestinian by CJPME (Podcast)
- Let’s Talk Palestine by Let’s Talk Palestine (Spotify Podcast)
- The Weekly Palestine by CSPP (Spotify Podcast)
- “The Palestinian Resistance and Sheikh Jarrah” feat. Mohammed el-Kurd + Abu Shawarib by Groundings (Spotify Podcast)
- “Reimagining Palestinian Health and Education with Yara Asi” by Rethinking Palestine (Apple Podcast)
- This is Palestine (Podcast)
- Palestinians Podcast (Podcast)
REFERENCED OPEN LETTERS AND STATEMENTS
- The Architecture Lobby’s Statement In Solidarity With The People Of Palestine (published in May 2021) and the revisited statement (published in October 2023)
- treatylands.globalstories’ statement and resources list (published in May 2021)
- University of Toronto’s The Black Students’ Association - Re: Violence and Attacks on Gaza Palestine (Published in October 2023)
- Toronto Metropolitan University’s Student Union - Official Statement (Published in October 2023)
- Open Letter from Palestinian Students to Toronto Metropolitan University (Published in November 2023)