The Palestinians

by Anna Carew-Miller

At the center of one of the world's most intractable conflicts are a people who number fewer than 12 million worldwide: the Palestinians. For centuries these people of Arab ancestry lived in the eastern Mediterranean region known as Palestine or, because of its religious significance, as the Holy Land. In 1948 a United Nations plan to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states led to what Palestinians call al-Nakba ("the disaster")--an Arab-Israeli...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1422234487
• ISBN13: 9781422234488
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Mason Crest Publishers
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.6" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12