Center for Middle East Studies

NDPS Book Series

The New Directions in Palestinian Studies series publishes books that put Palestinians at the center of research projects, and that make an innovative contribution to decolonizing and globalizing knowledge production about the Palestinians in and beyond Palestine.

Current Books

The Story of Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948-1956
A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization

Mission

This series seeks book proposals that center Palestinians in the framing of new research questions and lines of inquiry. Works that attend, through Palestinian-generated sources, to the diversity and contradictions of internal Palestinian life regardless of geography, are most welcome. We also welcome works that exceed or suggest alternatives to the dominant national, settler-colonial and relational paradigms, and that integrate global and comparative perspectives. The series editors are open to a wide range of disciplinary approaches including, but not limited to, the fields of history, anthropology, literature, political economy, sociology, religious studies, international relations, post-colonial studies, environmental studies, visual culture, and media studies. Books in the series will be made available as free e-books as well as an affordable print-on-demand paperback edition.

Editorial Committee

Beshara Doumani, Brown University—Series Editor
Nadia Abu El-Haj, Columbia University
Nadi Abusaada, American University of Beirut
Samera Esmeir, University of California, Berkeley
Nouri Gana, University of California, Los Angeles
Salim Tamari, Birzeit University and Institute for Palestine Studies

Submission Process

We are currently accepting submissions for this series on a rolling basis. To receive full consideration please email a book proposal and your CV to the editorial committee at ndpsbooks@gmail.com

About the Series

New Directions in Palestinian Studies is published through UC Press’s open access platform, Luminos, and in conjunction with the New Directions in Palestinian Studies research initiative of Brown University’s Center for Middle East Studies.

Luminos is University of California Press’s open access publishing program for monographs. With the same high standards for selection, peer review, production and marketing as UC Press’s traditional program, Luminos is a transformative model, built as a partnership where costs and benefits are shared. 

For more information and a list of books currently in the series, please visit the University of California Press website.