The Hundred Years' War on Palestine cover art

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

By: Rashid I. Khalidi
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Rashid I. Khalidi
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Shortlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize

The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of nationhood and denial of history. The Hundred Years War on Palestine is Rashid Khalidi's powerful response. Drawing on his family archives, he reclaims the fundamental right of any people: to narrate their history on their own terms.

Beginning in the final days of the Ottoman Empire, Khalidi reveals nascent Palestinian nationalism and the broad recognition by the early Zionists of the colonial nature of their project. These ideas and their echoes defend Nakba - the Palestinian term for the establishment of the state of Israel - the cession of the West Bank and Gaza to Jordan and Egypt, the Six Day War and the occupation. Moving through these critical moments, Khalidi interweaves the voices of journalists, poets and resistance leaders with his own accounts as a child of a UN official and a resident of Beirut during the 1982 siege. The result is a profoundly moving account of a hundred-year-long war of occupation, dispossession and colonialisation.

©2020 Rashid I. Khalidi (P)2023 Profile Books Ltd Israel & Palestine Middle East Politics & Government World War Imperialism Iran Thought-Provoking Africa Royalty Ottoman Empire Military Middle ages

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Palestine cover art
Justice for Some cover art
Orientalism cover art
They Called Me a Lioness cover art
My Promised Land cover art
The Story of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) cover art
Culture and Imperialism cover art
Palestinian-Israeli Conflict cover art
The General's Son cover art
Stalin and the Fate of Europe cover art
American Foreign Relations cover art
The Cold War (2nd Edition) cover art
1944 cover art
Blood Washing Blood cover art
The Cold War cover art
Israel cover art

Critic reviews

'Riveting and original...a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in this deeply unequal conflict.' Noam Chomsky
All stars
Most relevant  
I'm learning more about Palestine to help me understand the history and root cause of the current atrocity happening in Gaza.
This is essential reading for everyone.

Astounding

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
very informative listening on the topic of Palestine. I am now very keen to read the actual book on paper.

balanced historical account

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Excellent pronunciation by narrator, well researched and amazingly written. I'm buying a physical copy of this book now for note taking!!

Beautifully written

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Am very important read, highly recommended for a thorough understanding of current events. An excellent and engaging telling of history

Excellent

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Fantastic book with an engaging narrator. Adept and thought provoking history. We’ll worth reading/listening.

Brilliant Analysis

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Essential reading on this deeply concerning this issue. A fair and balance perspective on the century long conflict in Palestine  

A deeply insightful and scholarly work 

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Israel is, in fact, a colonial-settler project in a post-colonial era that has succeed due to help from pwerful allies, the lack of democracy in the neighbouring Arab states, the ineffectiveness of internationa law and a brilliant,if corrupt

Essential for understanding the Zionist project.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Read - or listen to (this book is narrated with balance and poise) - anything on this subject and there will be a review which will say something about bias. If ever there was a subject that this might be more than likely, it is this one. Because there probably is no middle ground. Is there a commentator whose position and perspective in life has not been affected by the ‘Great Powers’, either positively or negatively, in some way?
Mine definitely has, and so I felt a bias in the story. But I’m so glad I carried on because having read much on this subject - and with the recent 2023 eruption of violence firmly in my mind - I needed to refresh on the history and source and get a perspective I don’t think I’ve been given. That I was uncomfortable at time was almost comforting, and that I might wish to blame everything on the various ‘biggest bullies in the playground’ (there are bullies and there are bigger bullies - this is human nature reduced to his basic parts perhaps) 100 years ago, or 70, or 50, or even on the more recent tactics (but not strategies) of a game show, I think I agreed pretty much with most of not all of the conclusion; which in the very least did what a conclusion should do, bringing forward points from various perspectives and making a (for me a humanistic) proposal. This book in the very least will bring you up to 2017, allow you to ‘predict’ the current zero-sum, zero-gain conflict, and despair at all humans, the key protagonists and their self-destructive long game. Two perspectives, (which might have become doctrine, ideology or a faith or a combination thereof) one very ancient, one ancient, and very much human [and from my world, Shakespearian] tragedy. For what it’s worth, and whoever you are - and whether you want to add to your historical or geo-political knowledge - read it and weep (for all of our fellow humans inextricably linked to their fate). Stuart - a humanist, atheist born of an ex-great power/colonising fractured state in a state.

A perspective I’d probably not considered fully but glad I did

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I Appreciated how the history was told through the author’s family. Very helpful to better understand current events.

Narrated engagingly.

Insightful

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Thought this was brilliant - incredibly informative and so well read. free Palestine and end the occultation.

Incredible book

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews