Palestine in a World on Fire

A collection of interviews with some of the world's leading progressive thinkers on the movement for Palestinian liberation and its connections to struggles for justice across the globe. As more and more people align themselves with the Palestinian people, Palestine in a World on Fire provides the global perspective and analysis needed to inform how we forge ahead on this path of newfound solidarity. Editors Ilan Pappé and Katherine Natanel have gathered a collection of interviews that are intimate, challenging, and rigorous--many of them conducted before October 7th but still startlingly prescient. The interviewees connect the struggle for Palestinian liberation to various liberatory movements around the world, simultaneously interrogating and recontextualizing their own positions given the ongoing aggression in Palestine. This incredible group includes Angela Y. Davis, Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Nadine El-Enany, Gabor Mate, Mustafa Barghouti, Yanis Varoufakis, Paul Gilroy, Elias Khoury, Gayatri Spivak, and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. Palestine in a World on Fire highlights the centrality of Palestine in struggles shared across the world: capitalism, imperialism, misogyny, neo-colonialism, racism, and more. Each conversation tackles urgent events and unfolding dynamics, and the scholar-activists interviewed here provide invaluable perspectives and insights, illuminating the richness and relevance of recent scholarship on Palestine.

About the Author :
Katherine Natanel is a Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. Her research engages with political participation and mobilization; conflict and political violence; and affect and political emotions, primarily in the context of Palestine/Israel. Her first book, Sustaining Conflict: Apathy and Domination in Israel-Palestine, was awarded the 2017 Feminist and Women's Studies Association (UK & Ireland) Book Prize. Katie is the Executive Editor for Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP). Ilan Pappé is the Director of the European Center for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter, UK, and a senior fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies in the University of Exeter. Pappé has written 22 books to date, including Our Visions for Liberation, The War on Gaza, On Palestine, and the best-seller The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.

Review :
"The eleven conversations in Palestine in a World on Fire provide important background on topics as varied as the limits of compassion, from Gabor Maté; the limits of the law from El-Enany; the field of economics from Varoufakis; and political realities from Mustafa Barghouti." --The New Arab "Palestine in a World of Fire is a must-read for everyone who is interested in learning about Palestine and its incredible impact on liberation struggles across the globe. Scholars of many disciplines would find it inspiring, and it would appeal to the general reader and college and high school students." --Arab Studies Quarterly "Palestine in a World on Fire offers insightful perspectives into Palestine's state of increasing crisis prior to the October 7th attack, and is highly recommended for public and college library contemporary International Studies collections." --Midwest Book Review "These conversations have the power to shatter complacent and intellectually/emotionally comfortable constructs on liberation, justice and solidarity on Palestine and the world; while simultaneously challenging you to share in the often painful critical reconstruction of the will, imagination and language necessary for genuine understanding and action. Such are the new validations of knowledge and awareness that both Katharene Natanel and Ilan Pappe have been generating and into which they have brought such magnificent participants. Please read and engage." --Hanan Ashrawi "A powerful, heart-rendering collection of testimonies that give us hope of peace, freedom, and justice for the Palestinian people." --Jeremy Corbyn "As the world burns, Palestine flares brighter and hotter than any other place on the planet. This extraordinary and timely book remind us that fire both engulfs and illuminates; it generates ash and brilliance. Ilan Pappe's Covid-era conversations with some of our most profound thinkers consider how a free Palestine offers a path toward decolonizing the world. The portal Arundhati Roy identified leads straight to Palestine, and this book points the way." --Robin D. G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination