The Kappe Library’s “Contested Spaces” series focuses on regions currently being shaped by violence and heightened partisan disputation.
During Summer 2024 the library added to its KL Research Guides four new guides:
Like the KL’s other Research Guides these recommend books, articles and online resources that are available via the Kappe Library, or open access online. The guides emphasize design: the built environment, landscape design, planning, preservation and regional spatial traditions and practices, but also include socio-cultural and political histories to better understand each region.
Abreek-Zubiedat, F. & Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, "The right to an urban history: The Gaza Master Plan, 1975–1982", Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol.39, #2, 2021, p.254-270 (Available via Sage Journals)
Abreek-Zubiedat, F. & Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, "Transformative Destruction in Gaza City: 1967-1982", Entangled Histories, Multiple Geographies, EAHN, 2015, p.48-53 (Available via susanklaiber.wordpress.com)
Al-Ju’beh, Nazmi, "Architecture as a Source for Historical Documentation: The Use of Palestine’s Built Heritage as a Research Tool", Jerusalem Quarterly, #36, Winter 2009 (Open access)
Amiry, Suad, Peasant architecture in Palestine : space, kinship and gender, Riwaq, NA245.P34 .A26 2017.
Arena of Speculation ("Critical perspectives on the spatial futures of Israel-Palestine")
Assaf, Dena S., "Palestinian: Courtyard house," in Paul Oliver (Editor), Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, NA208.E53 1997, v. 2, pages 1515-6.
Bar-Or, Galia (Editor), Kibbutz : architecture without precedents : the Israeli Pavilion, the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, the Venice Biennial, Top Print, NA1477 .K53 2010.
Bishåarah, Khaldåun & Suad Amiry (Editors), Reclaiming Space : the 50 village project on rural Palestine, Riwaq, NA109.W47 R43 2015.
Comet-ME ("Israeli-Palestinian non-profit organization providing sustainable energy and clean water services to off-grid communities")
Decolonizing Architecture Art Research (Art & research practice of Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, "situated between architecture, art, pedagogy and politics")
Fuchs, Ron. “The Palestinian Arab House and the Islamic ‘Primitive Hut,’” Muqarnas 15 (1998): 157–77 (Available via JSTOR)
Gitler, Inbal Ben-Asher & Anat Geva (Editors), Israel as a modern architectural experimental lab, 1948-1978, Intellect, NA1477.I87 2020.
“Israel,” Oxford Art Online, 2003.
Kappe Library Research Guide: "Architecture in the ancient Middle East".
Kappe Library Research Guide: "Architectures of Islam & the Middle East".
Lambert, Léopold (Editor), The Funambulist Pamphlets 6: Palestine, Punctum Books, 2013 (See “Architectural Stockholm Syndrome”) (Available via JSTOR)
Nazzal, Rehab, Driving in Palestine, Fernwood Publishing, TR659.8 .N39 2023.
Nitzan-Shiftan, Alona, Seizing Jerusalem : the architectures of unilateral unification, University of Minnesota Press, NA1478.J4 N58 2017 (Also available as an ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)
"Palestine," Grove Art Online, 2003.
Petti, Alessandro, et al, Architecture after revolution, Sternberg Press, NA1477.P48 2013.
Riwaq Center for Architectural Conservation : Nonprofit focused on "preserving Palestinian collective memory through projects that document and restore architectural heritage sites across the West Bank and Gaza". One of their projects is a Registry of Historic Buildings in Palestine.
Sharif, Yara, Architecture of resistance : cultivating moments of possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, Routledge, NA2543.S6 S54 2017
Shoked, Noam, In the land of the patriarchs : design and contestation in West Bank settlements, University of Texas Press, NA7420.W47S56 2023.
Singh, Ashika, “Towards Dwelling in Spaces of Inhospitality: A Phenomenological Exploration of Home in Nahr Al-Barid.” In Making Home(s) in Displacement: Critical Reflections on a Spatial Practice, edited by Alessandra Gola, Luce Beeckmans, Ashika Singh, and Hilde Heynen, 239–64. Leuven University Press, 2022 (Available via JSTOR)
Sorkin, Michael (Editor), The next Jerusalem: sharing the divided city, Monacelli Press, DS109.15.N49 2002.
Sorkin, Michael & Dean Sharp (Editors), Open Gaza, Terreform & The American University in Cairo Press, NA1478.G39 O64 2021 (Also available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Sophia, Waste siege : the life of infrastructure in Palestine, Stanford University Press, HD4485.W47 S63 2020.
Toukan, Oraib, Sundry Modernism: Materials for a study of Palestinian modernism, Sternberg Press, NA1477.T68 2017.
Weizman, Eyal, Hollow Land : Israel's Architecture of Occupation, Verso Books, 2012 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
The Yalla Project (Multi-disciplinary project regenerating Nablus)
Ankori, Gannit, Palestinian Art, Reaktion Books, 2006 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Bossan, Enrico (Editor), Palestine : contemporary art from within and beyond the border, Antiga Edizioni, N7277.P35 2016.
Manor, Dalia. Art in Zion: The Genesis of Modern National Art in Jewish Palestine, Taylor & Francis Group, 2005 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central
Rosen-Ayalon, Myriam, Islamic art and archaeology in Palestine, Left Coast Press, DS111.1.R6713 2006.
Sabaaneh, Mohammad, Palestine in black and white, Saqi Books, NC1720.I75 S23 2018.
UCSD Copley Library, "Palestinian art: overview of Palestinian art & history".
Visualizing Palestine - Aggregator of “data and research to visually communicate Palestinian experiences to provoke narrative change”.
Koudelka, Josef, Wall: Israeli & Palestinian Landscape 2008-2012, Aperture, Oversize-TR647.K88 2013.
Sorkin, Michael, Against the wall : Israel's barrier to peace. New Press, DS119.76 .A385 2005.
Weizman, Eyal. “Seeing through Walls: The Split Sovereign and the One-Way Mirror.” Grey Room, no. 24 (2006): 88–99 (Available via JSTOR)
Abreek-Zubiedat, Fatina, "Militarized urbanism in the cold war era: The resettlement of the refugees in Khan Younis", Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Vol.41, #6, 2023, p.1079-1095 (Available via Sage Journals)
Ageel, Ghada, Apartheid in Palestine : Hard Laws and Harder Experiences, The University of Alberta Press, 2016 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Al-Bashir, Khaled, et al., “Exile.” AA Files, no. 77 (2020): 8–9 (Available via JSTOR)
Alroey, Gur, An unpromising land : Jewish migration to Palestine in the early twentieth century, Stanford University Press, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Beeckmans, Luce, et al. (Editors), Making Home(s) in Displacement: Critical Reflections on a Spatial Practice, Leuven University Press, 2022 (Available via JSTOR)
Griffiths, Mark & Mikko Joronen (Editors), Encountering Palestine : Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence, University of Nebraska Press, 2023 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Katz, Irit, The common camp : architecture of power and resistance in Israel-Palestine, University of Minnesota Press, HV640.4.I75 K38 2022.
Khalidi, Rashid, The hundred years' war on Palestine : a history of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917-2017, Metropolitan Books, DS119.7.K4279 2020.
Schewe, Eric, et al., “Settlements and the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Background Reading,” Jstor Daily, May 19, 2021 (Collection of open-access articles via JSTOR)
Weizman, Eyal. “Architecture, Power Unplugged: Gaza Evacuations.” Log, no. 6 (2005): 41–50 (Available via JSTOR)
El-Eini, Roza, Mandated Landscape : British Imperial Rule in Palestine 1929-1948, Taylor & Francis Group, 2005 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Gilbert, Martin, Israel : a history, RosettaBooks, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Halevy, Dotan, Stripped: Ruination, Liminality, and the Making of the Gaza Strip 1840-1950, Columbia University, PhD dissertation, 2021. (Downloadable PDF available via Columbia Academic Commons)
Kaplan, Eran & Derek J. Penslar (Editors), The origins of Israel, 1882-1948: a documentary history, University of Wisconsin Press, 2011 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Lentin, Ronit (Editor), Thinking Palestine, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2008 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Masalha, Nur, Palestine : a four thousand year history, I. B. Tauris, DS117.M375 2022
Palestine Nexus - Documents, books, newspapers, maps, etc. on the history of Palestine, Egypt, Turkey, and the Ottoman Empire, published by Zachary Foster.
"The Six Day War: Causes and Consequences", Camera (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America)
Vet, Annelys de (Editor), Subjective atlas of Palestine, 010 Publishers, DS112 .S89 2007
Finkelstein, Norman, Gaza : An Inquest into Its Martyrdom, University of California Press, 2018 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Klein, Naomi, “Israel, Palestine, and the Doppelganger Effect,” Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023 (Excerpt from Klein's book Doppelganger)
Ross, Andrew, Stone men : the Palestinians who built Israel, Verso, 2019 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Shoshan, Malkit, Atlas of the conflict : Israel-Palestine, 010 Publishers, G2236.S1 S5 2010.
Weizman, Eyal, "Israel’s Architecture of Occupation: Eyal Weizman on Gaza & Targeting of Jewish Pro-Palestinian Voices", Democracy Now!, March 22, 2024.
Abusalim, Jehad (Editor), Light in Gaza : Writings Born of Fire, Haymarket Books, 2022 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Ghalayini, Basma (Editor), Palestine + 100, Deep Vellum, 2022 (Collection of short stories that envision the country in the year 2048) (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Harrison, Olivia C., Transcolonial Maghreb : imagining Palestine in the era of decolonization, Stanford University Press, 2016 (North African writers “engaged with the Palestinian question and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict over the past fifty years.”) (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Hochberg, Gil Z.. In Spite of Partition : Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination, Princeton University Press, 2007 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Barnett, Michael N., et al (Editors), The one state reality: what is Israel/Palestine? Cornell University Press, 2023 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Chomsky, Noam & Ilan Pappé, On Palestine, Haymarket Books, ProQuest Ebook Central, 2015 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Davis, Rochell and Mimi Kirk (Editors), Palestine and the Palestinians in the 21st Century, Indiana University Press, 2013 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Makdisi, Saree, Palestine inside out : an everyday occupation, W.W. Norton, DS119.76.M3395 2008.
