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In the coming months, an unprecedented number of new works on Palestine are set to be published in English – spanning from prison memoirs to poetry, political analyses to polemics. As we approach the third year of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, we need that writing now, more than ever.
These are some of the critical titles that will be hitting bookstores soon. As always, if there are any new books you’d like to share with us, please write to [email protected]
– The Editors at The Key
September
Mahmoud Khalil
No Land to Stand On
As a leader of the student encampment at Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil became a target of both the educational institution’s vicious anti-Palestinian crackdown and the Trump administration’s ICE deportation regime.
No Land to Stand On draws on his detention diaries while also telling his family history.
Batool Abu Akleen
48kg
The debut collection from the 20-year-old poet from Gaza made such an impact after its first publication that it is now being reissued by Penguin.
You can listen to Abu Akleen discuss her work on The PalFest Podcast, and buy the original Tenement Press edition from the PalFest shop.
Assal Rad
Don’t Say Palestine
Rad’s searing critiques of Western media headlines covering Israel’s genocide of Gaza have been viewed millions of times around the world. Here, the scholar dives deeper into these institutions’ active and transparent attempts to manufacture consent for Israel’s genocide.
Benjamin Moser
Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
A sweeping history of Jewish thinkers who opposed Zionism, and a look at how they have been silenced and obscured. This book grew out of a trip the Pulitzer Prize-winning author took to Palestine with the 2017 Palestine Festival of Literature.
Fady Joudah
Exhibit G
A collection of poems, essays, and photographs from the split perspective of a Palestinian American physician caring for the sick while watching the destruction of Gaza from the United States.
Join PalFest on October 16 at the Mosaic Rooms in London, where Fady Joudah will be in conversation with Zena Agha.
Akbar Shahid Ahmed
Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel's War in Gaza
A powerful and authoritative account of how the Biden administration fueled bloodshed in Gaza, from an award-winning foreign affairs journalist.
October
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Discipline (U.K. edition)
A searing critique of Western liberalism and its complicity with the enduring colonial violence of Zionism. The novel, first published in Australia in 2025, follows a cast of Arab Muslim characters working in media and educational institutions who are forced to choose between conflict and compromise with the mainstream colonial culture.
You can listen to Abdel-Fattah discuss Discipline on The PalFest Podcast. If you’re in London, you can see her live on October 3.
Adam Rouhana
Before Freedom
The debut photo book from Rouhana, Before Freedom offers an intimate portrait of everyday life in Palestine – capturing both children playing and families picnicking alongside the physical realities of life under military occupation.
Nada Elia
Falastiniyyat: A Century of Palestinian Feminisms
A history of Palestinian women’s organizing from 1929 to the present. Noura Erakat praises the book’s “narrative, urgency, and intimacy spanning a century and continents to provide a remarkable history of Palestinian feminism. Elia’s own life in struggle makes this text vibrate.”
Subscribers to the PalFest Bookshelf will receive Falastiniyyat, along with an extra item, as their December shipment.
