Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora – Yasir Suleiman (Ed.)
Editor: Yasir Suleiman
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Print Length: 384 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / History
Area: Palestine / Israel
People: Palestinian / Falastini
What does it means to be Palestinian in the diaspora?This collection of 100 personal reflections on being Palestinian is the first book of its kind. Reflecting on Palestinian identity as it is experienced at the individual level, issues of identity, exile, refugee status, nostalgia, belonging and alienation are at the heart of the book. The contributors speak in many voices, exploring the richness and diversity of identity construction among Palestinians in the diaspora.Included are contributions from Palestinians living in the Anglo-Saxon diaspora, mainly the UK and North America. They come from a variety of professional backgrounds: business people, lawyers, judges, fiction writers, poets, journalists (press, TV and radio), film-makers, diplomats and academics.
Men and women, young and old, Christians and Muslims offer essays, as do Palestinians from different generations (first, second and third generations). This mix of professional, gender, faith and generational categories ensures that a variety of voices are heard. The editor sets the scene with an Introduction, and his Epilogue deals with issues of identity, exile and diaspora as concepts that give sense to the personal reflections. Key Features The first book to gather personal reflections on what it means to be Palestinian Contributes to the debate on what it means to be Palestinian Asks what the diaspora is for Palestinians Looks at how being Palestinian varies across gender, generation, religious affiliation and professional interest.
Table of Contents
Yasir Suleiman Prologue
Samer Abdelnour Becoming Palestinian
Laila Abdul Razzaq Beyond Recitation and Ritual
Danah Abdulla Only Icons
Ishaq Abu-Arafeh Resident of Both, National of None
Nuha Abudabbeh Withouy my Jaffa: Other Seas
Lila Abu-Lughod Buffeted By How Others See You
Lama Abu-Odeh Disrupting the Peace of Others
Mahdi Abu-Omar Fate: A Blessing
Salman Abu Sitta The Invisible Face of the Occupier
Leena Al-Arian A Palestinian State of Mind
Sami Al-Arian No Land’s Man Determined to Return to Palestine
Najwa Al-Qattan An Ornithologist from Iceland
Samer Al-Saber A Recurring Sound. A Familiar Image
Atef Alshaer A Journey in Progress
Hala Alyan In Dust
Kholoud Amr Citizen of the World
Anonymous Being Nobody
Iman Arab Embracing Uncertainty
Sa’ed Atshan ‘Our Country Lives in Us’
Abdel Bari Atwan Forever Gazan
Ida Audeh Ties that Bind, Ties that Sustain
Omar Aysha Pal.I.Am
Ibtisam Azem Things We Carry With Us
Fuad Baho The Sadness Continues
Aida Bamia Childhood Curtailed
Ibtisam Barakat Forty Days of Mourning
Ramzy Baroud Seeking ‘Home’
Sahera Bleibeh Voices from Within
Reja-e Busailah The Tree
Selma Dabbagh A Road Taken
Taysir Dabbagh Living in a World of Double Standards
Souad Dajani Walking in Her Eyes
Susan Muaddi Darraj Claiming Citizenship
Izzat Darwazeh Breathing Politics
Dawoud El-Alami Motherland
Najat El-Taji El-Khairi Painting my Way Back Home One Stitch at a Time
Sharif Elmusa A Demon of Hope
Doaa Elnakhala Contradictory Worlds
Amal Eqeiq Bint Liblaad on the Road
Randa Farah Darker Shades of Exile
Rawan Hadid Present in Absence
John Halaka Inside as an Outsider
Anwar Hamed Caught Between the Taste of Sunshine and Chopin Nocturnes
Sousan Hammad I See Palestine in my Rear-View Mirror
Laila Hamzi I Am, and I Am Always Becoming
Nathalie Hendal Guide to Being Palestinian
Jean Hanna Memories that Live
Marwan Hassan A Boy from Mash-had
Ghazi Hassoun Reconciling Araby and America
Johnny Hazboun When Will it be Vacant?
Khaled Hroub Living in Letters ot the Arrogance of a Cityless Man
Sarah Ihmoud Palestine in the Nepantla
Mohamad Issa Enduring Ties
Asma Jaber The Pain and Beauty of Dispossession
Salma Khadra Jayyusi The Durable Cords of Memory
Salwa Affara Jones Mujaddara – Arabian Haggis!
Fady Joudah Still Life
Khalid Kamhawi Subversive Abstraction
Ghada Kanafani Where to Now?
Ghada Karmi Fitting Nowhere
Victor Kattan Home is Where the Heart Is. But Where is Home?
Tanya Keilani A Vision Affirmed
Reem Kelani Bridge to Palesitine
Baseem Khader Badge of Honour
Lisa Suhair Majaj Homemaking
Jean Said Makdisi Starnger to my Own Story
George Makhlouf No Room in my Luggage
Bashir Makhlouf Labyrinth of Memories
Sinan Suleiman Malley Palestine the Brave
Khalil Marrar From Ajjur to America: Rootedness in Diaspora
Dina Matar In, but not Of
Nabil Matar Lurching at Jericho
Alaa Milbes Rolling Grape Leaves on a Map of the World
Fouad Moughrabi An Act of Resistance
Michel Moushabeck The Mukhtar and I: A Day with my Grandfather in the Old City
Ibrahim Muhawi Parsley, Miryamiyah, Rosemary and Za’tar
Nadia Naser-Najjab In Search of a Common Language
Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi Fostering Palestine
Jamal Nassar Seeds of Justice
Maha Nassar My Resilient Flag
Naomi Shihab Nye Written on his Forehead: My Father, Aziz Shihab
Bashier Oudeh Aiming High
Yousif Qasmiyeh My Mother’s Heels
Loubna Qutami Images from a Shattered Mirror
Najat Rahman Be/Longing
Hanan Ramahi Eating Forbidden Palestine
Omar Ramahi Palestine-Something
Aftim Saba No Paradise to Recreate
Karl Sabbagh A Mission to Explain
Najla Said A Heavy, Unwieldy Bag
Mohammad Sakhnini Lost to Geography
Saliba Sarsar Transcending Blind Allegiance
Suha Shakkour Still a Palestinian
Abbas Shiblak Homing Instincs
Ghadir Siyam Born(e) in the Heart
Linda Tabar Bodily Wounds and the Journey Home
Simine Tepper Holding Palestine Close to my Heart
Omar Tesdell When All is Not What it Seems
Lena Khalaff Tuffaha The Weight of Our Blessings
Nadia Yaqub A Sometime Palestinian
Munther Younes Entry Denied
Jameel Zayed Barricaded
Glossary
Yasir Suleiman is Emeritus Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge, formerly His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Contemporary Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge and the Iraq Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is Commander of the British Empire (CBE), Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE) and Ambassador of the University of Sarajevo. He is Chair of the Board of Trustees of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), the premier prize for the Arabic novel internationally, Member of the Banipal Board for Arab literature, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Gulf Research Centre-Cambridge, Former Chair and Member of the Panel of Judges of the British Kuwaiti Friendship Society Book Prize. He is Founding Director of the Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge, and Founding President and Provost of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He served on many national and international bodies. His numerous publications cover various aspects of the Arabic language in the social world, including issues of identity and conflict.
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