This reading list is organized in the following sections:

1. Introductory and Archival Materials
2. Revolt and Rebellion under the British Mandate:
3. Palestinian Resistance 1948 – 1993
4. Contemporary Palestinian Resistance
5. Palestinian Institutions and Political Parties
6. Worker Mobilization, Labor Movements, and Economic Resistance
7. Resistance in Zionist Prisons
8. Role of Palestinian Women in the Intifada
9. Memoirs and Personal Profiles
10. Historical fiction, literature, and poetry
11. Films

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1. Introductory and Archival Materials

• Decolonize Palestine 
• Learn the Revolution 
• باب الواد – الجامعة الشعبية 
• Introduction to Palestinian Resistance

2. Revolt and Rebellion under the British Mandate: 

• “The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine,” Ghassan Kanafani (1972)

• (ثورة 1936- 1939: خلفيات وتفاصيل وتحليل.” غسان كنفاني (1972”
• Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past, Ted Swedenburg (1995)

• أبو جلدة والعرميط Abu Jilda & Al ‘Armit 
• “Abu Jilda, Anti-Imperial Hero: Banditry and Popular Rebellion in Palestine,” Alex Winder (2015)

3. Palestinian Resistance 1948 – 1993

This section is loosely organized in chronological order of the events and histories addressed in each text.

• Armed Struggle and the Search for a State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1948 – 1993, Yezid Sayigh (1997)

• (معنى النكبة” قنسطنطين زريق (1948” 

• Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries, Rosemary Sayegh (1979)

• (من التحرير إلى الدولة: تاريخ الحركة الوطنية الفلسطينية، 1948-1988” هيلغا بوبغارتن (2006”

• Green March Black September: The Story of the Palestinian Arabs, John Cooley (1973)

• “Interview with Fr. Shehadeh Shehadeh on the First Land Day Protest.” Sharif Hamadeh (2005)

• Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement, Julie Peteet (1991)

• “What the Uprising Means,” Salim Tamari (1988)

• “The Stone and the Pen: Palestinian Education During the 1987 Intifada” Yamila Hussein (2005) 

• Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment, Mazin Qumsiyeh (2011)
• (وقع الانتفاضات الشعبية الديمقراطية – تاريخ المنظمة و الحركات” جميل هلال (2011”

4. Contemporary Palestinian Resistance 

• “No Choice but to Break Free: An Interview with Ahmed Abu Artema” Ahmed Abu Artema and Lara Sheehi (2019) 

• Interview with Ahmad Saadat, Leading from Prison, Ending Negotiations, and Rebuilding the Resistance (2013) 

• “Palestinian Resistance and Sheikh Jarrah” Devyn Springer, Mohammed el-Kurd, and Abu Shuwarib, Groundings Podcast (2021)
• هبّة باب العامود: نصر جديد وتحدٍّ جديد 2” خالد عودة الله (2021”
• “Tal’at: a feminist movement that is redefining liberation and reimagining Palestine” Hala Marshood and Riya AlSanah (2020)
• (حراك «طالعات» الفلسطيني: لا وجود لوطن حرّ إلّا بنساء حرّة” حلا مرشود (2019”

5. Palestinian Institutions and Political Parties

• PLO: History of a Revolution – Six-part documentary series about history of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (2009)

• The PLO: The Struggle Within, Alain Gresh (1985)

• “The Joy of Flying 1967-73” in The Palestinian Liberation Organization: People, Power, and Politics, Helena Cobban (1984)  

• “The Palestinian National Covenant,” published in Basic Political Documents of the Armed Palestinian Resistance Movement, Leila Kadi (ed.) (1969)

• “PLO Institutions: The Challenge Ahead,” Jamil Hilal (1993)

• “A New Hamas Through Its New Documents,” Khaled Hroub (2006)

6. Worker Mobilization, Labor Movements, and Economic Resistance 

• Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948, Zachary Lockman (1996) 

• “When pickles become a weapon: Economy of the first Intifada,” Palestinian Journeys

• (أداء المؤسسات الاقتصادية في المناطق المحتلة قبل الانتفاضة وخلالها”، عادل سمارة (1990”

• “Developing a Palestinian Resistance Economy through Agricultural Labor,” Rayya El-Zein (2017)

7. Resistance in Zionist Prisons

• These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons, Ramzy Baroud (2019)

• Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle Within the Israeli Prison System, Nahla Abdo (2014)

• Palestinian Political Prisoners: Identity and Community, Esmail Nashif (2008)

• Video: Steadfastness and Resistance — the Palestinian prisoner’s movement and the case of Ahmad Sa’adat

8. Role of Palestinian Women in the Intifada 

• Behind the intifada: Labor and Women’s Movements in the Occupied Territories, Joost R. Hiltermann (1991).
• Palestinian Women and the Intifada, Rana Khoury (1995)
• “The Palestinian women’s autonomous movement: Emergency, dynamics and challenges,” Rabab Abdulhadi  (1998)
• “Women of the Intifada: gender, class and national liberation,” Nahla Abdo (1991)
• Women, War, and Peace: Reflections from the Intifada, Nahla Abdo (2002)
• Palestinian Women’s Activism, Islah Jad (2018)

9. Memoirs and Personal Profiles 

• My People Shall Live, Leila Khaled, (1971)
• Jamjoum, Hazem. Liberation, Wonder, and the ‘Magic of the World’: Basel al-Araj’s I Have Found My Answers, (2021)
• (وجدت أجوبتي: هكذا تكلم الشهيد باسل الأعرج” باسل الأعرج (2018”
• (مذكرات نجاتي صدقي” ،تقديم وإعداد حنّا أبو حنّا، (2001”
• “I Went to Defend Jerusalem in Cordoba, Memoirs of a Palestinian Communist in the Spanish International Brigades,” Najati Sidqqi, (2015)

• “Two Portraits in Resistance – Abu ‘Umar and Mahjub ‘Umar,” Jehan Helou and Elias Khoury (2012)
• My Life in the PLO: The Inside Story of the Palestinian Struggle, Shafiq al Hout and Jean Said Makdisi (2019)

10. Historical fiction, literature, and poetry 

• “Live Like a Porcupine, Fight Like a Flea,” A Translation of an Article by Basel Al-Araj
• “Here We Will Stay,” Tawfiq Zayyad (1966)

• Poetry of Resistance in Occupied Palestine, translated by Sulafa Hijjawi (Baghdad, Ministry of Culture and Guidance, 1968)

• Returning to Haifa, Ghassan Kanafani (1969)
• Prisoner of Love, Jean Genet, (1986)

• الأدب الفلسطيني المقاوم تحت الإحتلال 1948ـ1968” ,غسان كنفاني”

• “Resist My People, Resist Them,” Dareen Tatour (2015) 

• (نظرية اللعبة” خالد عودة الله (2018”
• Rifqa, Mohammed El-Kurd (2021)

11. Films

• Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory (2015)
• Naji al Ali An Artist With a Vision (1999)
• Leila Khaled: Hijacker (2005)
• Naila and the Uprising (2017)
• They do not exist (1974)
• Jenin Jenin (2002)
• Everything and Nothing (1991)
• Slingshot Hip Hop (2008)
• When I Saw You/ Lamma Shoftak (2012)

Originally published on May 23, 2021 via bit.ly/pymreadinglist.