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Abeer Baker is a senior lawyer with Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (NGO) and heads the Legal Clinic for Prisoners' Rights, in the Law Faculty of Haifa University. She is the co-author of Threat: Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel (Pluto, 2011).Anat Matar is a senior lecturer of philosophy at Tel Aviv University and a political activist. She is the chair of the Israeli Committee for the Palestinian Prisoners and the co-author of Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel (Pluto, 2011).

'A timely and urgent volume that brings to the fore the systematic injustices endemic to the Israeli imprisonment of Palestinians'

• Preface: The Palestinian Prisoners: Politicization and De-Politicization, by Abeer Baker and Anat Matar Notes on ContributorsPart I – Analyses1. The Centrality of the Prisoners' Movement to the Palestinian Struggle against the Israeli Occupation: A Historical Perspective, by Maya Rosenfeld2. Towards a Materialist Reading of Political Imprisonment in Palestine, by Esmail Nashef 3. Who Is a Security Prisoner and Why? An Examination of the Legality of Prison Regulations Governing Security Prisoners, by Alon Harel 4. The Security Risk as a Security Risk: Notes on the Classification Practices of the Israeli Security Services, by Yael Berda5 Palestinian Women Political Prisoners and the Israeli State, by Nahla Abdo 6. Prison Policy and Political Imprisonment in Northern Ireland and Israel, by Alina Korn Part II – Arrest, Interrogation, Trial, Release7. The Arrest and Persecution of Elected Political Leaders Interview with Sheikh Muhammad Abu-Teir, Interviewed by Abeer Baker and Anat Matar 8. My Arrests, My Interrogations, by Osama Barham 9. Colonel and Major (poem), by Avigdor Feldman10. Welcome to Shin Bet Country, by Avigdor Feldman 11. A Decade after the High Court of Justice “Torture” Ruling, What’s Changed?, by Bana Shoughry-Badarne12. The Mysteries of Administrative Detention, by Tamar Pelleg-Sryck 13. Reframing the Legality of the Israeli Military Courts in the West Bank: Military Occupation or Apartheid?, by Sharon Weill 14. Are There Prisoners in this War?, by Smadar Ben-Natan15. Institutional Schizophrenia: The Release of "Security Prisoners" in Israel, by Leslie Sebba16. Prisoner Exchange Deals: Between Figures and Emotions, by Mounir Mansour Part III – Inside Prison17. Females Prisoners and the Struggle: A Personal Testimony, by Ittaf Alian (Hodaly) 18. Devil's Island: Transfer of Palestinian Detainees into Prisons within Israel, by Michael Sfard19. Family Visits to Palestinian Prisoners Held inside Israel, by Sigi Ben-Ari and Anat Barsella20. Isolation and Solitary Confinement of Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees in Israeli Facilities, by Sahar Francis and Kathleen Gibson21. The Impact of Isolation on Mental Health, by Ruchama Marton Consciousness Molded or the Re-Identification of Torture, by Walid Daka Index