Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine

ISBN-13: 9780745342917 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 368 str.

Diana Allan; Rosemary Sayigh

Opis

First-generation Palestinian refugees recall life before and after the Nakba

Spis treści

Preface - Mahmoud Zeidan (Co-founder of the Nakba Archive)Introduction - Diana Allan (Co-founder of the Nakba Archive; McGill University)Part 1 Life in pre-1948 Palestine 1. Village Life in Palestine by Rochelle Davis (Georgetown University)2. Of Forests and Trees: City Life in 1930s Palestine by Sherene Seikaly (UC Santa Barbara)3. The Margin and the Centre in Narrating pre-1948 Palestine by Amirah Silmi (Birzeit University)4. Mandated Memory: The Schooling of Palestine in Anis Sayighs and Nicola Ziadehs pre-1948 Recollections by Dyala Hamzah (Université de Montréal)Part 2 The British Mandate and the Palestine Resistance5. Motivations and Tensions of Palestinian Police Service under British Rule by Alex Winder (Brown University)6. Storying the Great Arab Revolt: Narratives of Resistance During 1936-39 by Jacob Norris (University of Sussex)7. Songs of Resistance by Ted Swedenburg (University of Arkansas)Part 3. War and Ethnic Cleansing8. The Roots of the Nakba by Salman Abu Sitta (Independent Researcher)9. The Massacres of Salha, Husayniyya, Safsaf and Ilut by Saleh Abd al-Jawad (Birzeit University)10. Remembering the Fight by Laila Parsons (McGill University)Part 4 Flight and Exile11. The Dispossession of Lydd by Lena Jayussi (Zayed University)12. When Women Remember: Gender, Trauma and Counter-memories by Ruba Salih (SOAS)13. The Politics of Listening by Cynthia Kreichati (McGill University)Afterword - Oral History in Palestinian Studies by Rosemary SayighGlossaryContributorsBibliographyIndex

O autorze

Diana Allan is Assistant Professor at McGill University. She is a filmmaker and the co-founder of the Nakba Archive. Her ethnography, Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile, (Stanford University Press, 2013) won the MEMO Palestine academic book award and the American Anthropological Association, Middle East Section Award.