Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History

𝘈 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘺𝘵𝘩—𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘌𝘨𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘖𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴—𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥.

𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘:

First published in 2018, with a paperback edition released in 2023, Nur Masalha’s ‘Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History’ is a seismic act of historical reclamation—resurrecting a land too often erased, distorted, or mythologized.

With sweeping command of archaeology, ancient texts, and modern scholarship, Masalha reveals that Palestine is no modern invention, no footnote to someone else’s history—it is a name and a place that echo across four thousand years. From Egyptian and Assyrian records to Roman maps, Islamic chronicles, and Ottoman archives, Masalha shows that Palestine was imagined, inhabited, and named long before modern nationalism, long before colonial cartography tried to redraw it.

This is not the biblical “Holy Land” wrapped in myth, nor the empty stage for competing modern claims. It is a richly layered cultural and political reality—continuously peopled by Canaanites, Jews, Christians, Muslims, and others—woven into the very fabric of Near Eastern history.

By exposing how biblical narratives and colonial projects sought to erase or overwrite this deep continuity, Masalha delivers more than a history: he restores a people’s memory and place in the world.

Palestine is not a reaction—it is a rooted, resilient inheritance. And this book is its unflinching witness.

𝐓𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 & 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖:

• Amazon Kindle:

https://read.amazon.com/sample/B09J8KB3CB?f=1&l=en_US&r=e87c4e14&rid=Y9H6B2T3951A2ZBFXD8E&sid=143-5878592-3903501&cid=A2K6SQ0CF3IW38&ref_=litb_m

𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖:

• Palestine Chronicle:

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/palestine-a-four-thousand-year-history-book-review/

𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘 & 𝐏𝐔𝐑𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐒𝐄:

• Bloomsbury:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/palestine-9780755649426/