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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Palestine’s origins trace to the Late Bronze Age, nearly 3,200 years in the past.
Chapter 3: Ancient Palestine kept thriving under both Greek and Roman governance.
Chapter 4: In Byzantine Palestine, Christianity expanded while Arabs rose in prominence, ascending to influential roles and authority across society.
Chapter 5: The Muslim conquest of Palestine in 637 AD brought prosperity, deeper Arabization, and expanding Islamization thereafter.
Chapter 6: After ousting European Crusaders, the Ayyubid and Mamluk dynasties governed Palestine thereafter.
Chapter 7: Ottoman governance in Palestine yielded to a Palestinian state during the eighteenth century era.
Chapter 8: Modern Palestinian nationalism emerged in the early nineteenth century, intensifying alongside the rise of Zionism thereafter.
Chapter 9: The Zionist movement was grounded in European settler colonialism and racism.
Chapter 10: Israel’s deliberate erasure of Palestinian history is pervasive and thoroughly documented today.
Description
Palestine (2015) chronicles the long history of the land straddling the eastern Mediterranean between modern-day Lebanon and Egypt. By compiling an impressive set of sources both ancient and modern, Nur Masalha presents a nuanced history of the region, from its roots in ancient Philistine civilization to the advent of modern Palestinian nationalism in the nineteenth century, and Israel’s founding in 1948.
Who Should Listen
- Students of history or politics
- Supporters of both Israel and Palestine looking to inform themselves on the region
- Palestinians who’d like to learn more about the complex historical tapestry of their land