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New Directions in Palestinian Studies

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Nakba and Survival

The Story of Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948-1956

Adel Manna

Volume 6 in this series

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Beginning in 1948, Israeli paramilitary forces began violently displacing Palestinian Arabs from Palestine. Nakba and Survival tells the stories of Palestinians in Haifa and the Galilee during, and in the decade after, mass dispossession. Manna uses oral histories and Palestinian and Israeli archives, diaries, and memories to meticulously reconstruct the social history of the Palestinians who remained and returned to become Israeli citizens. This book focuses in particular on the Galilee, using the story of Manna's own family and their village Majd al-Krum after the establishment of Israel to shed light on the cruelties faced by survivors of the military regime. While scholars of the Palestinian national movement have often studied Palestinian resistance to Israel as related to the armed struggle and the cultural struggle against the Jewish state, Manna shows that remaining in Israel under the brutality of occupation and fighting to return to Palestinian communities after displacement are acts of heroism in their own right.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520389373
ISBN:: 9780520389373
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Arab World
Publisher:: University of California Press

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Camera Palaestina

Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine

Salim Tamari, Issam Nassar, Stephen Sheehi

Volume 5 in this series

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Camera Palaestina is a critical exploration of Jerusalemite chronicler Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1904–1972) and his seven photography albums entitled The Illustrated History of Palestine. Jawhariyyeh’s nine hundred images narrate the rich cultural and political milieu of Ottoman and Mandate Palestine. Nassar, Sheehi, and Tamari locate this archive at the juncture between the history of photography in the Arab world and the social history of Palestine. Shedding new light on this foundational period, the authors explore not just major historical events and the development of an urban bourgeois lifestyle but a social field of vision of Palestinian life as exemplified in the Jerusalem community. Tracking the interplay between photographic images, the authors offer evidence of the unbroken field of material, historical, and collective experience from the living past to the living present of Arab Palestine.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520382893
ISBN:: 9780520382893
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Arab World
Publisher:: University of California Press

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Rethinking Statehood in Palestine

Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition

Leila H. Farsakh

Volume 4 in this series

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The quest for an inclusive and independent state has been at the center of the Palestinian national struggle for a very long time. This book critically reexamines this quest by exploring the meaning of Palestinian statehood and the challenges that face alternative models to it today. Rethinking Statehood in Palestine gives prominence to a young set of diverse Palestinian scholars, both men and women, to show how notions of citizenship, sovereignty, and nationhood are being currently rethought within the broader context of decolonization. Bringing forth critical and multifacetted engagements with what Palestinian self-determination entails within a larger regional context, this groundbreaking book sets the terms of debate for the future of Palestine beyond partition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520385634
ISBN:: 9780520385634
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Arab World
Publisher:: University of California Press

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The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions

An Everyday Perspective from Nahr el-Bared Camp

Perla Issa

Volume 3 in this series

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The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions is an ethnographic study of Palestinian political factions in Lebanon through an immersion in daily home life. Perla Issa asks how sometimes unpopular and discredited political factions remain the center of political life in the Palestinian camps in diaspora. Through an examination of the daily, mundane practices of refugees in Nahr el-Bared camp in particular, this book shows how intimate, interpersonal and kin-based relations are transformed into political networks and offers a fresh analysis of how those networks are in turn metamorphosed into political structures. By providing a detailed and intimate account of this process, this book reveals how factions are produced and reproduced in everyday life even often despite widespread condemnation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520380608
ISBN:: 9780520380608
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Social Structures, Social Interaction, Population, Social Anthropology
Publisher:: University of California Press

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Al-Haq

A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization

Lynn Welchman

Volume 2 in this series

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This is the story of al-Haq, leading from the front in Palestine and internationally.

Established in Ramallah in 1979, al-Haq was the first Palestinian human rights organization and one of the first such organizations in the Arab world. This inside history explores how al-Haq initiated methodologies in law and practice that were ahead of their time and to which can be traced the origins of many strands of human rights work in Palestine and elsewhere today. It looks at the founders of this internationally recognized organization, its staffers, its work, and its legacy. Al-Haq’s history answers important questions, such as: Why would one set up a human rights organization under military occupation? How would one go about promoting the rule of law in a Palestinian society deleteriously served by the law and with every reason to distrust those charged with implementing its protections? How would one go about educating overseas allies and activating international law in defense of Palestinian rights? This revelatory story speaks to the practice of local human rights organizations and their impact on international groups.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520976900
ISBN:: 9780520976900
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Arab World
Publisher:: University of California Press

Book Open Access 2020

Palestinian Chicago

Identity in Exile

Loren D. Lybarger

Volume 1 in this series

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Chicago is home to one of the largest, most politically active Palestinian immigrant communities in the United States. For decades, secular nationalism held sway as the dominant political ideology, but since the 1990s its structures have weakened and Islamic institutions have gained strength. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interview data, Palestinian Chicago charts the origins of these changes and the multiple effects they have had on identity across religious, political, class, gender, and generational lines. The perspectives that emerge through this rich ethnography challenge prevailing understandings of secularity and religion, offering critical insight into current debates about immigration and national belonging.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520974401
ISBN:: 9780520974401
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Publisher:: University of California Press