Catastrophe Remembered: Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees – (Essays in Memory of Edward W Said) – Nur Masalha (Ed)
Editor: Nur Masalha
Publisher: Zed Books
Print Length: 320 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Migration & Refugee Studies, Non-Fiction / Social Science
Area: Palestine / Israel
Topic: Grief, Human Rights, Indigenous & Indigeneity, International Protection, Oral History, Refugee Durable Solution, Resistance
The 1948 Palestine War is known to Israelis as ‘the War of Independence’. But for Palestinians, the war is forever the Nakba, the ‘catastrophe’. The war led to the creation of the State of Israel and the destruction of much of Palestininan society by the Zionist forces. For all Palestinians, the Nakba has become central to history, memory and identity. This book focuses on Palestinian internal refugees in Israel and internally displaced Palestinians across the Green Line. It uses oral history and interviews to examine Palestinian identity and memory, indigenous rights, international protection, the ‘right of return’, and a just solution in Palestine/Israel.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword: Edward W. Said, Scholar Activist – NASEER H. ARURI
Introduction – NUR MASALHA
Part I • Evolving Israeli Policies and Indigenous Resistance
1 Present Absentees and Indigenous Resistance – NUR MASALHA
2 The State of Israel versus the Palestinian Internal Refugees – HILLEL COHEN
3 Patterns of Internal Displacement, Social Adjustment and the Challenge of Return – NIHAD BOQA’I
4 Forced Sedentarisation, Land Rights and Indigenous Resistance: The Palestinian Bedouin in the Negev – ISMA’EL ABU- S A’A D
Part II • Palestinian Oral History and Memory
5 “A Muted Sort of Grief ”: Tales of Refuge in Nazareth (1948–2005) – ISABELLE HUMPHRIES
6 Kafr Bir’im – WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
7 The Nakba, Oral History and the Palestinian Peasantry: The Case of Lubya – MAHMOUD ‘ISSA
8 Unrecognised Villages: Indigenous ‘Ayn Hawd versus Artists’ Colony ‘Ein Hod – JONATHAN COOK
9 The Nakba in Hebrew: Israeli-Jewish Awareness of the Palestinian Catastrophe and Internal Refugees – EITAN BRONSTEIN
PART III • Human Rights and International Protection
10 The Real Road Map to Peace: International Dimensions of the Internal Refugee Question – ILAN PAPPÉ
11 International Protection and Durable Solutions – TERRY REMPEL
Index
Edward W Said was a Palestinian American academic, political activist, and literary critic who examined literature in light of social and cultural politics and was an outspoken proponent of the political rights of the Palestinian people and the creation of an independent Palestinian state.
Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-Said
More from Edward W Said in this library, click here.
Nur Masalha is a Palestinian historian and formerly Director of the Centre for Religion and History at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham. He is Editor of “Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies”: http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/hls, published by Edinburgh University Press. He is the author of many books on Palestine-Israel. His current work focuses on religion and politics in the Middle East, oral history and social memory theory, subaltern studies, new Palestinian and Israeli historiography, the Bible and Zionism, Holy Land toponymy, Jerusalem archaeology, theologies of liberation in Palestine and Life-Long Learning in Palestine.
Source: https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/nur-masalha
More from Nur Masalha in this library, click here.