THE EDUCATIONAL BOOKSHOP

THE EDUCATIONAL BOOKSHOP A well-established leading bookstore focusing on the Palestinian Identity, from all its aspects. المكتبة العلمية
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Eid al-Adha begins tomorrow, so the bookshop will be closed for a couple of days.Fun fact 🤓 Known as the “Festival of Sa...
26/05/2026

Eid al-Adha begins tomorrow, so the bookshop will be closed for a couple of days.
Fun fact 🤓 Known as the “Festival of Sacrifice,” it is rooted in a tradition of sharing: the meat from the sacrificed animal is typically divided into three parts—family, extended relatives, and those in need within the wider society—making it one of the world’s largest annual acts of communal giving. In many places today, families instead donate the equivalent value to charity rather than performing the physical act of animal sacrifice.

A little quiz for those who have lived or worked in Jerusalem: this photograph dates to around 1950 and appears to show ...
06/05/2026

A little quiz for those who have lived or worked in Jerusalem: this photograph dates to around 1950 and appears to show a Jordanian military or police checkpoint. Can you identify the location?

14/04/2026

In his seminal novella Men in the Sun (1962), Ghassan Kanafani offered a powerful allegory of the Palestinian experience—displacement, loss, and the relentless search for life beyond reach. Three men, chasing the fragile promise of survival, perish unseen inside a sealed water tank, their final moments swallowed by the desert’s indifferent sun.

Yesterday, a horrifying video surfaced showing approximately sixty Palestinian workers folded into the hollow belly of a garbage truck at a checkpoint in the West Bank—risking their lives for the mere possibility of reaching work and earning a livelihood. This is not an echo of literature; it is its confirmation. More than sixty years later, Kanafani’s warning endures: when dignity and livelihoods are denied, people are pushed into spaces unfit for human life. The tragedy is not symbolic—it is structural, ongoing, and entirely real.

For years now, we have witnessed a growing body of literature on the Theology of Liberation, rooting belief in the strug...
06/04/2026

For years now, we have witnessed a growing body of literature on the Theology of Liberation, rooting belief in the struggle for justice, dignity, and the steadfast refusal of erasure. This Easter, in a time of war and bloodshed, these books remind us that faith, at its truest, stands with the oppressed and insists on life against all odds.

Ahmad Kaabour passed away a few days ago. A Lebanese singer, songwriter, composer, and actor, he is best known for “Ouna...
30/03/2026

Ahmad Kaabour passed away a few days ago. A Lebanese singer, songwriter, composer, and actor, he is best known for “Ounadikom,” composed in 1975 at the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War.

He was not merely a leading figure of politically engaged song; he was its emblem—a sentinel at the edge of Arab grief, guarding its meaning. His songs became anthems of a shared consciousness, voicing a defiant, lucid, and unadorned truth.

Kaabour understood, with rare clarity, the role of song in turbulent times: not as a substitute for action, but as what preserves its meaning. His voice never sought to dazzle; its power lay in sincerity. He seemed to step back so the words could move forward—bearing their full weight of pain and unembellished love.

His absence will be felt. Yet his work endures—untethered to its moment, rooted in something lasting: the human insistence on hope, dignity, and the will to remain.

With the passing of Walid Khalidi, Palestine loses one of its most faithful custodians of memory. Born in Jerusalem (192...
09/03/2026

With the passing of Walid Khalidi, Palestine loses one of its most faithful custodians of memory. Born in Jerusalem (1925), Khalidi devoted a lifetime to rescuing a shattered landscape from oblivion, restoring through patient scholarship the names, lives, and textures of a world others sought to erase. He wrote and edited more than twenty books; among them, Before Their Diaspora and the monumental All That Remains stand as seminal works. The institution he helped build, the Institute for Palestine Studies, embodies his conviction that history can be an act of quiet defiance—a refusal to allow villages to vanish into statistics or lives to dissolve into silence. His passing marks the end of a rare intellectual life, yet Palestinians will continue documenting their past and charting their future; the Palestine he preserved in words endures, steadfast in the memory he refused to surrender. We extend our condolences to ourselves, to our book community, and to his family—dear friends and colleagues.

War circles back to us once more.If endurance were a category in the Guinness World Records, perhaps our little bookshop...
28/02/2026

War circles back to us once more.
If endurance were a category in the Guinness World Records, perhaps our little bookshop would find its name there — ten wars, twelve, who is still counting? The numbers blur, but the doors remain.

We are still here. We are going nowhere. We will open our doors whenever we can, each time the key turns in the lock, it is an act of faith. We will continue to champion books and literature — especially now, when thinking, reflecting, and dreaming feel not like luxuries but necessities.

To our wider community of readers and friends: we are here for you. If you need support, assistance, a book, or simply a conversation, please reach out. We will do what we can, as we always have.

Stay safe. The Muna family

A reminder of THIS evening book launch: Palestine Insights: critical interventions. Co-organized with Rosa Luxembourg Fo...
22/01/2026

A reminder of THIS evening book launch: Palestine Insights: critical interventions. Co-organized with Rosa Luxembourg Foundation, this is a timely book addressing series of topics ranging from economy to social anthropology- and everything is between. All welcome, 6pm at the bookshop - small reception will be followed. (6pm)

Rejoignez-nous pour une plongée au cœur de l’histoire du quartier maghrébin de Jérusalem, lors d’une conférence avec Vin...
14/01/2026

Rejoignez-nous pour une plongée au cœur de l’histoire du quartier maghrébin de Jérusalem, lors d’une conférence avec Vincent Lemire et Yusuf S. Natsheh.

انضمّوا إلينا في رحلة إلى قلب تاريخ حيّ المغاربة في القدس، خلال محاضرة يشارك فيها فانسون لومير و يوسف النتشة.

Join us for a deep dive into the history of Jerusalem’s Maghribi quarter, at a conference with Vincent Lemire and Yusuf S. Natsheh.

📅 17/01/2026 | Samedi • السبت • Saturday
🕥 10h30 - ١٠:٣٠ صباحاً - at 10:30 AM
📍 Institut français de Jérusalem, Chateaubriand | المعهد الفرنسي بالقدس - شاتوبريون

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We share, with heavy hearts, the news of the early passing of Hamzah Aqrabawi (حمزة العقرباوي), a Palestinian storytelle...
30/12/2025

We share, with heavy hearts, the news of the early passing of Hamzah Aqrabawi (حمزة العقرباوي), a Palestinian storyteller, researcher, and devoted guardian of cultural memory, who died tragically by drowning in the Nile River. Known to many as “the Palestinian Hakawati,” Hamzah dedicated his life to listening closely—to elders, to villages, to landscapes—and to carrying forward the fragile threads of Palestinian oral history: folktales, songs, expressions, and the everyday wisdom of rural life, particularly around Nablus and its surroundings. Through his writing, public storytelling, and heritage walks, he transformed memory into a living practice and reminded those around him that culture survives by being spoken, shared, and loved. His departure leaves a quiet absence, but his voice—woven into the stories he preserved—continues to echo. Photo by Nayef Hammouri.

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