Resources on Palestine

Recommended Readings: Mental Health

Atallah, D. G., Shapiro, E. R., Al-Azraq, N., Qaisi, Y., & Suyemoto, K. L. (2018). Decolonizing qualitative research through transformative community engagement: critical investigation of resilience with Palestinian refugees in the West Bank. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 15(4), 489-519. doi:10.1080/14780887.2017.1416805 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14780887.2017.1416805?journalCode=uqrp20
El-Khodary, B., Samara, M., & Askew, C. (2020). Traumatic Events and PTSD Among Palestinian Children and Adolescents: The Effect of Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors. Front. Psychiatry 11:4. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00004 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00004/full
Goldhill, O. (2019). Palestine’s head of mental health services says PTSD is a western concept. Quartz. https://qz.com/1521806/palestines-head-of-mental-health-services-says-ptsd-is-a-western-concept/
Marie, M., SaadAdeen, S., & Battat, M. (2020). Anxiety disorders and PTSD in Palestine: a literature review. BMC Psychiatry, 20(1), 509. doi:10.1186/s12888-020-02911-7 https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-020-02911-7#citeas

Websites & Organizations

Books

“The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017” by Rashid Khalidi
“Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine” by Nora Erakat
“Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics” by Marc Lamont Hill & Mitchell Plitnick

Reports

“A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persection” by Human Rights Watch. https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution
“The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the US” by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal. https://ccrjustice.org/the-palestine-exception

Podcasts