In The Limits of Coexistence, anthropologist Rebecca L. Torstrick studies relations between Palestinian Arabs and Jews in the mixed city of Akka (Acre) in northern Israel.

Based on extended fieldwork, she shows how housing policy, schooling, municipal politics and everyday interactions are shaped by structural inequality and the Jewish character of the state, which limit the possibilities of genuine coexistence. She describes how Palestinian residents struggle to preserve their community in the Old City and assert their identity.