Join us Saturday November 16th for a panel discussion with members of the Palestinian Youth Movement and Richard Becker, on two new books published by 1804 Books: “The Trinity of Fundamentals” by Waseem Rafeedie and “Palestine, Israel, and the U.S. Empire” by Richard Becker.
“The Trinity of Fundamentals” is the fictionalized account of former Palestinian prisoner Rafeedie’s nine-year experience hiding from the Occupation, now presented in its first-ever English translation, a project of @palestinianyouthmovement Twenty-two-year-old Kan’an is driven by an unshakable commitment to the Palestinian cause. His compelling journey filled with sacrifice and struggle, love and pain, isolation and liberation. Throughout all this, Kan’an maintains a spirit of revolutionary optimism so strong that the reader is bound to be transformed.
“Palestine, Israel, and the U.S. Empire” by Richard Becker is an essential book for the current moment and is for anyone who’s fighting against the colonial occupation of Palestine, and for your friends and family who are seeking to learn more about Palestine’s history. From the division of the Middle East by Western powers and the Zionist settler movement, to the founding of Israel and its role as a watchdog for US interests, to present day conflicts and the prospects for a just resolution—this narrative is firmly rooted in the politics of Palestinian liberation.
Wisam Rafeedie is a former Palestinian political prisoner, full-time researcher and lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences at Bethlehem University – Palestine. He previously worked as a part-time lecturer in Sociology and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University. He holds two master’s degrees from Birzeit University, one in sociology for his thesis on the changes in the status of women in contemporary Palestinian literature before and after Oslo, and the other in contemporary Arab studies.
Richard Becker is the Western Region Coordinator of the ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) Coalition, and the author of Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire, and The Myth of Democracy and the Rule of the Banks.
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