Olive Branch Press imprint: 17 books

Reel Bad Arabs

How Hollywood Vilifies a People

by Jack G. Shaheen
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012

A groundbreaking book that dissects a slanderous history dating from cinema's earliest days to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters that feature machine-gun wielding and bomb-blowing "evil" ArabsAward-winning film authority Jack G. Shaheen, noting that only Native Americans have been more relentlessly...

American Veterans on War

Personal Stories from WW II to Afghanistan

by Elise Forbes Tripp
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012

The United States is embroiled in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan-wars that seem as far from Americans’ understanding as they are distant from our shores.With American Veterans on War, Elise Forbes Tripp brings our current wars and their predecessors home in the words of 55 veterans aged 20 to 90....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

The memoirs of Wasif Jawhariyyeh are a remarkable treasure trove of writings on the life, culture, music, and history of Jerusalem. Spanning over four decades, from 1904 to 1948, they cover a period of enormous and turbulent change in Jerusalem’s history, but change lived and recalled from the daily...
by Emma Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012

A deeply affecting memoir and a unique contribution to our understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflictIn August 2000 Emma Williams arrived with her three small children in Jerusalem to join her husband and to work as a doctor. A month later, the second Palestinian intifada erupted. For the next...
by Jacob Nammar
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012

A poignant memoir of an eye witness of a major historical event in JerusalemWhen Jacob Nammar was a young boy growing up in Harret al-Nammareh, his family, his friends, and the streets of his West Jerusalem neighborhood were the center of his life. It wasn’t long, however, before his existence was...

The Putin Mystique

Inside Russia's Power Cult

by Anna Arutunyan
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2014

GETTING TO GRIPS WITH RUSSIA’S 21ST CENTURY TSARVladimir V. Putin has confounded world leaders and defied their assumptions as they tried to figure him out, only to misjudge him time and again. The Putin Mystique takes the reader on a journey through the Russia of Vladimir Putin, named by Forbes magazine...

Teaching Arabs, Writing Self

Memoirs of an Arab-American Woman

by Evelyn Shakir
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

Evelyn Shakir’s witty, wise, and beautifully written memoir explores her status as an Arab American woman, from the subtle bigotry she faced in Massachusetts as a second-generation Lebanese whose parents were not only foreign but eccentric, to the equally poignant blend of dislocation and homecoming...

Islam in Retrospect

Recovering the Message

by Maher S. Mahmassani
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2014

Islam, in many of its current guises, no longer resembles its original Message. In a world of intractable conflicts plagued by political Islam and Islamophobia-and where other forms of fundamentalism within the major religious creeds are on the rise, as well-this book serves as a reminder. It aims to...
by Phyllis Bennis
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012

If you have ever wondered “Why is there so much violence in the Middle East?”, “Who are the Palestinians?”, “What are the occupied territories?” or “What does Israel want?”, then this is the book for you. With straightforward language, Phyllis Bennis, longtime analyst of the region, answers...
by Dilip Hiro
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2013

In this up-to-date, painstakingly researched dictionary, author Dilip Hiro brings one of the most tumultuous regions of the world to our fingertips. It is easy-to-read, simple to use, authoritative, and comprehensive. If offers a wide range of alphabetically arranged information on topics ranging from...
by Richard D. Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012

A breathtakingly clear analysis that breaks down the root causes of today’s economic crisis“With unerring coherence and unequaled breadth of knowledge, Rick Wolff offers a rich and much needed corrective to the views of mainstream economists and pundits. It would be difficult to come away from this…...
by Jack G. Shaheen
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012

"Nothing will be the same again." Americans scarred by the experience of 9/11 often express this sentiment. But what remains the same, argues Jack G. Shaheen, is Hollywood's stereotyping of Arabs. Before 9/11, Shaheen dissected Hollywood's equation of Islam and Arabs with violence in Reel Bad Arabs,...

Seeking Palestine

New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home

by Raja Shehadeh
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

How do Palestinians live, imagine and reflect on home and exile in this period of a stateless and transitory Palestine, a deeply contested and crisis-ridden national project, and a sharp escalation in Israeli state violence and accompanying Palestinian oppression? How can exile and home be written?In...

The New Pearl Harbor Revisited

9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé

by David Ray Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012

In 2004, David Ray Griffin published The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11. Translated into several languages, it helped spark a worldwide movement demanding "9/11 truth." Even as it became increasingly outdated, it continued to be widely cited as the best...
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