ENGLISH

Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine

By Rosemary Sayigh , Diana Allan (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Pluto Press
Year
2021
ISBN
0745342922, 9780745342924
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6691232 bytes)
Pages
368\369
Time added
2021-10-25 08:55:17

Description

***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which translates to ‘disaster’ or ‘catastrophe’ - lays bare the violence of the ongoing Palestinian plight. Voices of the Nakba collects the stories of first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, documenting a watershed moment in the history of the modern Middle East through the voices of the people who lived through it. The interviews, with commentary from leading scholars of Palestine and the Middle East, offer a vivid journey into the history, politics and culture of Palestine, defining Palestinian popular memory on its own terms in all its plurality and complexity.

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