Palestine 1492: A Report Back

by Linda Quiquivix (Author and Illustrator)

Paperback: $25.00
Cloth: $45.00
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Edition: 1st

Rights: World
Language: English
Pages: 350
ISBN Paperback: 978-1-7371900-3-5
ISBN Cloth: 978-1-7371900-4-2
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Color: Black and White
Images: 90 illustrations, 65 maps, 28 photographs, 12 figures

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Reviews

A voyage from Turtle Island to Palestine not only through the lens of someone who has crystal clear transnational awareness of the U.S. settler-colonial project (including the satellite Zionist entity), but entwined in this narrative is the voice of Palestinians themselves, imbued with an admirable sense of praxis and heart. Here Quiquivix sings a song indigenous communities all over the world can close their eyes to with a dark sense of déjà vu and walk away wielding something glowing, new.

—Thaer Husien, author of Beside the Sickle Moon: A Palestinian Story

Quiqui’s words remind us that we do not face new struggles, only new masks on old struggles. Her book reminds us that the only way out is through–side by side.
—David Michael Pritchett, author of Mossback: Ecology, Emancipation, and Foraging for Hope in Painful Places

It is a meditation; it’s therapy, history class, geography class, and inter-ethnic healing salve. It says what we’ve been feeling and thinking, releasing us from isolating sensations of disorientation, calling us together back to our humanness.

And our divinity.
—Peacefulseeker

About the Book

Palestine 1492 is a report back of what I see from 500 years of the struggle for life in words, maps, and images in the seven cardinal directions and in the spiral that is time.

In Maya geography, there is east, west, south, and north, and there is also earth and sky. In the middle there is you, a meeting place between the physical, spiritual, emotional, and mental that together make up the social, a meeting place between earth and sky.

East, the physical, begins this report back by orienting us in a corner of Mother Earth still holding a stubborn insistence on life: Palestine.

West, the spiritual, helps diagnose an illness of a wounded, imbalanced, and dangerous world imposed globally since 1492.

In the South, the emotional, Chiapas nourishes our courage from below in a time of World Wars and global rebellions.

In the North, the mental, we flip the world on its head but not to remain, to help plan our common escape.

Throughout, I share conclusions Palestinians, Zapatistas, Panthers, and jaguars have taught me along this journey: that this world itself is unethical, and that changing it is difficult, even impossible. If after reading you also believe this to be true, may we dismantle this world together and help build a new one from below and in common, together and side by side.

About the Author

Linda Quiquivix is a geographer and popular educator of Maya-Mam roots raised by Palestinians, Zapatistas, Panthers, and jaguars.

Learn more about her work at quiqui.org

Acknowledgements

This book was midwived over six years by an Iranian compa and volunteer-edited by Palestinian, Egyptian, and Mexican compas. The charcoals used in the illustrations were gifts from the fires of anti-Zionist Jewish shepherds, a border-transgressing Indigenous compa, and the midwife’s Palo Santo stick.

EAST: Palestine from Below

1. Palestine Diary, 2010-2011

2. When the Rooftops Are Streets

3. To Die Standing

4. Panthers and Jaguars

WEST: Palestine from Above

5. Speak of the Devil

6. Wounded Europe

7. Jerusalem Next

8. A World Cut In Two

9. The Last Crusade

10. Palestine Counter-Maps

11. The Wretched of the Empire

SOUTH: The Fourth World War

12. The Third World War

13. Capital

14. Downward Assimilation

15. Globalization from Below

16. Dying in Order to Live

NORTH: A World Where All the Worlds Fit

17. Above vs Below

18. Side by Side

19. Strategy and Tactics

20. The Common

Look Inside

Expanded cover of Palestine 1492 with author photo

First spread of Part 1: East - "Palestine from Below" of Palestine 1492: A Report Back

First spread of Chapter 1 - "Palestine Diary, 2010-2011"

First spread of Chapter 2 - "When the Rooftops Are Streets"

First spread of Chapter 3 - "To Die Standing"

First spread of Chapter 4 - "Panthers and Jaguars"

First spread of Part 1: West - "Palestine from Above" of Palestine 1492: A Report Back

First spread of Chapter 5 - "Speak of the Devil"

First spread of Chapter 6 - "Wounded Europe"

First spread of Chapter 7 - "Jerusalem Next"

First spread of Chapter 8 - "A World Cut In Two"

First spread of Chapter 9 - "The Last Crusade"

First spread of Chapter 10 - "Palestine Counter-Maps"

First spread of Chapter 11 - "The Wretched of the Empire"

First spread of Part 3: South - "The Fourth World War" of Palestine 1492: A Report Back

First spread of Chapter 14 - "Downward Assimilation"

First spread of Chapter 15 - "Globalization from Below"

First spread of Chapter 16 - "Dying in Order to Live"

First spread of Part 4: North - "A World Where All the Worlds Fit" of Palestine 1492: A Report Back

First spread of Chapter 18 - "Side by Side"

First spread of Chapter 19 - "Strategy and Tactics"

First spread of Chapter 20 - "The Common"

This is a book for the dark times in which we live, as fascism spreads across the globe, enveloping country after country, including my own, as a live-streamed genocide is being committed in my name, as millions of people are being are experiencing famine, as we watch helplessly as nothing of any use is being done to curb climate change … it is a book full of light. It is a tool box. Linda Quiquivix spends time in Palestine, in Chiapas with the Zapatistas, she (correct pronoun?) illuminates Afropessimism … and that’s just a start. Written in an informal, personal, voice, and full of her charcoal images like an illuminated manuscript, Palestine: 1492 is an invitation to keep going, keep struggling, keep hoping, keep knowing that you are not alone.

—John B Rissman

Palestine 1492 is a stunning and beautiful piece of work. Quiquivix’s words are sustenance in the struggle – equal parts soothing and incisive. This book belongs in every classroom, every reading group, and on every bookshelf of anyone seeking a deeper understanding of how things got the way they are, and the centrality of the Palestinian cause to all liberation movements worldwide.

—Chaim Rochester