Palestine: Occupation to Liberation
Nothing comes out of the ether. The narrative of Palestine as "complicated" or "both sides" was built deliberately — and it can be deconstructed deliberately.
This reading journey takes you from Edward Said's foundational work on how the "Middle East" was constructed as a Western fantasy, through the lived reality of occupation, into humor as survival, abolitionist organizing frameworks, and finally to how we teach solidarity to the next generation.
Follow the full arc from seeing the mythology to raising the future.
Orientalism
One hundred years of colonial war. The historian who names it.
READ – REFLECT → RESIST
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Occupation, curfew, and a very demanding mother-in-law.
READ – REFLECT → RESIST
Sharon and My Mother-in-Law
Palestine. Ferguson. Prison. One struggle, many fronts.
READ – REFLECT → RESIST
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Department of Childish Revolution
For the adults raising the future:
An alphabet book about Palestine. They tried to ban it.
READ – REFLECT → RESIST
P is for Palestine
A girl visits her Palestinian grandmother. No shared language. Only love.
READ – REFLECT → RESIST
Sitti's Secrets
A Palestinian American girl moves to Jerusalem. Falls for a Jewish boy.
READ – REFLECT → RESIST
Habibi
A Palestinian family. Four generations of loss.
READ – REFLECT → RESIST
Mornings in Jenin
Teach the history they won't.
The children's section of your local bookstore wasn't built for revolution. So we're building our own. Picture books that celebrate organizers. Alphabet primers that teach solidarity. Chapter books where the good guys actually fight back.
Teach the history they won't.
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