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Fanonite Recommends

  • The Wretched of the Earth — Frantz Fanon
  • Black Skin, White Masks — Frantz Fanon
  • A Dying Colonialism – Frantz Fanon
  • Toward the African Revolution – Frantz Fanon
  • Prison Notebooks Vol 1 & 2 — Antonio Gramsci
  • Colonialism and Neocolonialism — Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Orientalism — Edward W. Said
  • Culture and Imperialism — Edward W. Said
  • Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil — Hannah Arendt
  • War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning — Chris Hedges
  • ‘Exterminate all the Brutes’ — Sven Lindquist
  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed — Paulo Freire

On Empire

  • The Blowback Trilogy — Chalmers Johnson
    1. Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
    2. The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
    3. Nemesis: Last Days of the American Republic
  • The One Percent Doctrine — Ron Suskind
  • Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror — Michael Scheuer

On the Israel-Palestine Conflict

  • Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History — Norman G. Finkelstein
  • Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict – Norman G. Finkelstein
  • Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years – Norman G. Finkelstein
  • Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question – edited by Edward W. Said and Christopher Hitchens
  • The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 — edited by Eugene L. Rogan & Avi Shlaim
  • The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid – edited by Roan Carey
  • The Question of Palestine — Edward W. Said
  • Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship — Andrew & Leslie Cockburn
  • Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 — Tanya Reinhart
  • The Roadmap to Nowhere: Israel/Palestine Since 2003 — Tanya Reinhart
  • The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine — Ilan Pappe

On Media and Propaganda

  • Taking the Risk Out of Demcoracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty — Alex Carey
  • Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media — Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman
  • The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy— Howard Friel & Richard Falk
  • Israel-Palestine on Record: How the New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East — Howard Friel & Richard Falk
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourses in the Age of Show Business — Neil Postman

On the Middle-East

  • The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East — Robert Fisk
  • Crusades Through Arab Eyes — Amin Maalouf
  • Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War — Robert Fisk
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  • f the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein (published in Britain as Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession) — Patrick & Andrew Cockburn
  • The Occupation — Patrick Cockburn
  • Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East — Rashid Khalidi
  • Iran: A People Interrupted — Hamid Dabashi

On Islam and Muslims

  • The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization I — Marshall Hodgson
    1. The Classical Age of Islam
    2. The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods
    3. The Gunpowder Empires and Modern Times
  • Challenging the New Orientalism: Dissenting Essays on the “War Against Islam” — M. Shahid Alam
  • Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror — Mahmood Mamdani
  • Civil Rights In Peril: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims — Elaine C. Hagopian
  • Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World — Edward W. Said

On Globalisation and the Economy

  • A Brief History of Neoliberalism — David Harvey
  • Globalization and Its Discontents – Joseph Stiglitz
  • Poverty From the Wealth of Nations: Integration and Polarization in the Global Economy since 1760 — M. Shahid Alam
  • Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity — Robert Pollin
  • The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism — Naomi Klein
  • The Endgame of Globalization — Neil Smith

Fiction

Poetry

  • The Butterfly’s Burden — Mahmoud Darwish
  • The Essential Neruda — Pablo Neruda
  • Poems 1913-1956 — Bertolt Brecht

Articles and Essays

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