- May 11, 2024
Palestinian Intellectuals Discuss ‘Right of Return’ in a London Conference (VIDEO)
The webinar ‘The Right of Return: 72 Years of Waiting’, featured Huwaida Arraf, Ali Abunimah, Farah Nabulsi, Lubnah Shomali, Najwan Berekdar, and Ramzy Baroud.
RCF: Ramzy and Zarefah Baroud on Gaza’s History of Resistance (WATCH)
The discussion will touch on the stories of real Palestinians who have paid a high price for their resistance, in all of its forms.
Why Israel Fears the Nakba: How memory Became Palestine’s Greatest Weapon
There can never be a just peace in Palestine until the priorities of the Palestinian people – their memories, and their aspirations – become the foundation of any political process between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
100 Years of Shame: Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo
Perhaps, it is time for the Palestinian leadership to understand that groveling at the feet of those who have inherited the San Remo Resolution, constructing and sustaining colonial Israel, is never and has never been the answer.
‘Last Chapter’ TV Program Discusses Baroud’s ‘Last Earth’ (VIDEO)
Ramzy Baroud’s latest volume, ‘The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story’ is the subject of a lively discussion in this Press TV program, ‘Last Chapter’, involving former British MP, Derek Conway, Human Rights barrister, Salma Karmi-Ayyoub and political analyst and writer, Nasim Ahmed. The Last Earth recounts the experiences of ordinary people who have lost their homes, […]
Who Killed Oscar and Valeria: The Inconvenient History of the Refugee Crisis
By Ramzy Baroud History never truly retires. Every event of the past, however inconsequential, reverberates throughout and, to an extent, shapes our present, and our future as well The haunting image of the bodies of Salvadoran father, Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his daughter, Valeria, who were washed ashore at a riverbank on the Mexico-US border cannot […]
Ramzy Baroud World Tour Continues: Kenya, London (VIDEO)
Dear readers, I am embarking on the third leg of my world tour, which this time will take me to Kenya and, again, to the UK. I will be in Nairobi from June 25 to July 3 on a ground-breaking tour to discuss my latest book, The Last Earth (Pluto, 2018). I will be speaking […]
‘World Refugee Day’: Palestinians Keep their Right of Return Alive through Hope, Resistance
By Ramzy Baroud The United Nations’ World Refugee Day, observed annually on June 20, should not merely represent a reminder of “the courage, strength and determination of women, men and children who are forced to flee their homeland under threat of persecution, conflict and violence.” It should also be an opportunity for the international community to truly […]
Palestinian Author Ramzy Baroud Heads to Kenya in Ground-Breaking Tour (VIDEO)
“Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter” is a popular adage within the African decolonial literary movement, and according to Palestinian author, Ramzy Baroud, it accurately describes how the Israeli narrative has dominated the story of the occupation of Palestine. Baroud will be in Nairobi from June 25 to […]
Ramzy Baroud to Speak at Rutgers (NJ), CIGA (Istanbul), Palestine Center (Wash. DC), Simon Fraser University (Vancouver BC)
Dear Friends and Readers, I look forward to meeting some of you on the next leg of my speaking tour. This is a tentative list as more events will be added soon. Thank you. PCRF at Rutgers – Thursday, April 18 – 7 pm It is my pleasure to return to Rutgers University, New Jersey, this […]
Ramzy’s Baroud Book Tour in Atlanta, GA: ‘Reclaiming the Self’
Friends and Readers in Atlanta, GA I look forward to my speaking tour in your city and having the chance to meet and converse with some of you in person. If you wish to attend any of my talks, please note the information and links below about my forthcoming events starting, January 27: Sunday, January […]
The Moral Travesty of Israel Demanding Arab and Iranian Money for Its Own ‘Nakba’
By Ramzy Baroud The game is afoot. Israel, believe it or not, is demanding that seven Arab countries and Iran should pay $250 billion as compensation for what it claims was the forceful expulsion of Jews from Arab countries during the late 1940s. The events that Israel cites allegedly occurred at a time when Zionist Jewish militias […]
Ramzy Baroud World Tour Continues: Hawai’i, London, Istanbul, Turin
Dear Readers, I am embarking on the second leg of my world tour that is set to take me to several countries, starting Nov 1. I am taking advantage of the publishing of my book THE LAST EARTH: A PALESTINIAN STORY to shed light on a new take on the history of the Palestinian people, […]
The Last Earth: a Palestinian Story – Book Review (VIDEO)
By Jim Miles (Ramzy Baroud. The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story. London: Pluto Press, 2018. Order it now) The Last Earth is a masterful weaving of personal stories into the full tapestry of a people, of individuals, torn from their homes and homeland. It is the kind of history not bound up in sequential dates, political […]
‘The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story’ Is a Decolonization of the Palestinian Narrative – Book Review
By Yoav Litvin, Ph.D. In The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story (Pluto Press, 2018), Ramzy Baroud — a Palestinian American journalist, author and editor of The Palestine Chronicle — lays out the remarkable journeys of four men and four women whose lives are inextricably tied to Palestine — its history, culture, tragedy and people. At […]
MEMO Hosts Launch of The Last Earth by Ramzy Baroud
By Rebecca Stead On Tuesday, March 27, Middle East Monitor (MEMO) hosted Ramzy Baroud as he launched his new book The Last Earth in front of a packed lecture theater at Imperial College, London. Chaired by Dr Dina Matar of the Centre for Palestine Studies at SOAS, University of London, Baroud shared his thoughts on […]
Ramona Wadi Reviews: The Last Earth. A Palestinian Story
To impart narratives of displacement, it is important to listen to the echoes of such trajectories. Ramzy Baroud’s latest book, The Last Earth: a Palestinian story, propels this dimension immediately to the fore. The reader takes a step back to listen, imagine and realise the immense contradictions, where life is in a constant struggle with death […]
Iqbal Siddiqui Reviews: ‘The Last Earth’ by Palestinian-American Writer Ramzy Baroud
Iqbal Siddiqui reviews “The Last Earth” by the Palestinian-American writer Ramzy Baroud, who tells the story of modern Palestine through the memories of those who have lived it. Baroud draws on dozens of interviews to produce vivid and intimate accounts of Palestinian lives – in villages, refugee camps, prisons and cities, in the lands of their […]
Public Lecture: Ramzy Baroud on ‘The Last Earth’ (VIDEO)
Palestinian journalist and historian Ramzy Baroud speaks on his new book The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story. At this critical juncture in Palestine’s history, with Trump’s recent declaration on Jerusalem and the Likud party vote to annex West Bank settlements, Dr. Baroud’s narrative of Palestinian dispossession, resistance, and resilience is important and timely. THE LAST […]
Australian Friends of Palestine: Book Launch with Ramzy Baroud
Click here for more information Dr Ramzy Baroud, Palestinian journalist, poet, political activist and historian, son of a freedom fighter, will visit Adelaide 9-10 May 2018 during the South Australian History Festival. This is a not to be missed opportunity for all interested in the contemporary political challenges emanating for Australia from the Middle East. […]
‘The Last Earth’: Flashing for the Refugees on the Unarmed Road of Flight
By Ron Jacobs Every once in a while a book is published wherein the text transcends the subject matter, lifting the stories between the covers into a place that is both revelatory and sublime; a place that renders the words involved to be more than mere representations of the subject matter. Ramzy Baroud’s latest book The […]
More Than a Fight over Couscous: Why the Palestinian Narrative Must Be Embraced
By Ramzy Baroud As soon as Virgin Atlantic Airlines introduced a couscous-style salad “inspired by the flavours of Palestine”, a controversy ensued. Israel’s supporters ignited a social media storm and sent many complaints to the company, obliging the airline to remove the reference to Palestine. In the Zionist narrative, Palestine does not exist – nor […]
Follow Ramzy Baroud World Tour: Palestinian Refugees Have a Voice
A Message from Ramzy Baroud Dear Readers, I am embarking on a world tour that is set to take me to several countries in five continents, starting Feb 20. I am taking advantage of the publishing of my book THE LAST EARTH: A PALESTINIAN STORY to shed light on a new take on the history […]
The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story
Now Available for Orders: Product details Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Pluto Press (20 Feb. 2018) ISBN-10: 0745337996 ISBN-13: 978-0745337999 Ron Jacobs (CounterPunch): “Baroud’s compositions are works of sheer unequivocal beauty. It is a beauty that is wrenched from a personal and collective tragedy so profound any reader but the one without a soul cannot help […]
ഗാസ: പറഞ്ഞു തീരാത്ത കഥകൾ (Malayalam Edition)
Order Your Copy from the Publisher: Other Books Gaza : paranhu Theeratha Kathakal, a translation of Ramzy Baroud’s My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story, is the fifth book in our series of books on Palestine. An important, yet engrossing, book that chronicles the persisting ordeals of the people of Palestine. It is […]
My Father Was a Freedom Fighter (Korean Edition)
Available from Sansuya publishers, South Korea.
İkinci Filistin İntifadası (Turkish Edition)
İkinci Filistin İntifadası Kategori: Roman Yazar: Ramzy Baroud (Çeviren: Zeynep Ulus Şengel) Üretici: Sitare Yayınları To order the book, click here.
La deuxième intifada palestinienne : Chronique d’un soulèvement populaire
« […] Ce livre se veut un moyen de construire une position palestinienne indépendante, sans aucune allégeance vis‑à‑vis d’aucun parti politique ou individu, ni aucune organisation officielle. En cela, il se veut simplement une tentative de se référer aux mêmes principes que ceux des innombrables réfugiés vivant dans des camps confinés et surpeuplés où avec fierté […]
Résistant en Palestine : Une histoire vraie de Gaza
Comprenez, de l’intérieur de Gaza, comment le peuple palestinien a vécu la signature des Accords d’Oslo : les espoirs suscités et immédiatement déçus, la désillusion et la colère suscitée par l’occupation et la colonisation israéliennes qui continuent… La seconde Intifada, et la montée politique du Hamas… Titre : Résistant en Palestine. Sous-titre : Une histoire […]
Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion
A searing testament to Israeli brutality and Palestinian resilience, spirit, and grace under pressure. Why is it that the US, Israel, the UN, and every news organization on earth has expressed their views on the Jenin invasion yet the Palestinian victims have never been allowed to speak? Searching Jenin explains what happened and how it […]
