Nonfiction for Social Change

Israeli and Palestinian Voices

A Dialogue with Both Sides

by Cathy Sultan

Winner, Book USA’s Best Books of 2006 History/Politics Award
Merit Award, Midwest Independent Publishers Association (MIPA)

“Standing in the shoes of those who face each other daily across this divide forces us to see beyond media stereotypes often reduced to terrorist and victim. The fast-paced narrative and compelling interviews bring to life a conflict whose complexities Americans must try to understand.”
– Sarah Harder, President, National Peace Foundation

Part travelogue, part history, part sociology, Israeli and Palestinian Voices begins with a fascinating account of Ms. Sultan’s determined research trip to Jerusalem and Ramallah, to interview many individuals on both sides of the conflict whose voices are seldom heard. With her artificial knees and indomitable spirit, this American housewife braved checkpoints, barbed wire, and Merkur tanks to visit her informants.

The illuminating, detailed interviews are followed by a historical primer for readers on the conflict’s growth to its present stand-off. Israeli and Palestinian Voices is a work for the interested non-expert, a book to open eyes to the human realities of life in Israel-Palestine and to clearly show the thinking on all sides.

Cathy Sultan is also the author of A Beirut Heart: One Woman’s War (Scarletta Press, 2005) which recounts her experiences during the Lebanese Civil War as a housewife with young children, and Tragedy in South Lebanon: The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006 (Scarletta Press, 2008). She currently lives in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and sits on the Executive Board of the National Peace Foundation. www.cathysultan.com/cms