Author Archives: Helena Cobban

About Helena Cobban

Helena Cobban is the owner of Just World Books. She’s been blogging since 2003 at JustWorldNews.org. Her 1984 book The Palestinian Liberation Organisation: People, Power, and Politics, was published by Cambridge University Press and is still in print. Her early-1990 study “The PLO and the Intifada” was published in The Middle East Journal (Spring 1990).

Roots of Resistance: The first intifada in the context of Palestinian history

This post is part of the series “Roots of Resistance: 25 year retrospective on the first intifada.”

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Miko Peled in NYC, June 18; in DC June 20-24

Miko Peled, the visionary author of The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, will be doing his first book talk on the U.S. east coast on Monday, June 18, at Revolution Books, in Manhattan.

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Exclusive Excerpt: Miko Peled’s ‘The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine’

Read an excerpt from Miko Peled’s new book The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. Renowned Palestinian scholar Walid Khalidi has written, “We are privileged to accompany the author on his own fascinating internal odyssey—a journey of self-education and cumulative critique of Zionist premises and Israeli practices.”

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‘The New York Insular Times’ publishes a tome on Shalit

The New York Times Magazine this weekend features a huge article (11 internet pages; how do I count the words?) on the deal to free Gilad Shalit, titled, “Gilad Shalit and the Rising Price of an Israeli Life.” The piece … Continue reading

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Surviving the Dahieh War: Rami Zurayk’s ‘War Diary: Lebanon 2006′

Thirty months before there was Cast Lead, there was the Dahieh War, a sustained assault against Lebanon during which the Israeli military flattened an entire neighborhood of tightly packed high-rises in southern Beirut called simply “the Dahieh” (the suburb.) The … Continue reading

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Turkish officials blow AIPAC claims out of the, uh, sea

This is a crosspost from Cobban’s site, Just World News Several strongly pro-Israeli members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have stepped up their campaigns against NATO ally Turkey over the past week, in a campaign that has … Continue reading

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