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***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.
This book brings together testimonials from people of different
nationalities and professions who are 'pro-Palestinian', whether as
scholars, film-makers, artists, musicians, activists, or NGO
workers. Using what oral historians call the ‘focused life
history’, renowned scholar, Rosemary Sayigh, invites her
contributors to describe the experiences, events, motives and
feelings that led them to support the Palestinian cause. The book
is the first of its kind in Palestiniography and includes voices
from countries across the world. A chapter is dedicated to each
country and contributors are asked to reveal how they
‘discovered’ Palestine - given that Palestine is rarely
mentioned in school textbooks or university courses - whether by
travel, friendship, study, membership in a political party or book
group. They are also asked to detail what specific forms their
engagement has taken - ranging scholarly, creative, militant, or
charitable - and what their hopes are for the international
solidarity movement. Finally, each contributor reflects on if they
feel a just and equitable solution can ever be achieved for
Palestinians, and if they accept the label ‘pro-Palestinian’ or
would rather define their relationship to the Palestinians in some
other way. With testimonies from both high profile and grassroots
activists, the book is a rich and personal selection that reflects
the diversity, dynamism and global nature of the movement for
Palestine.
An acclaimed economist and lifelong Palestinian nationalist Yusif
Sayigh (1916-2004) came of age at a time of immense political
change in the Middle East. Born in al-Bassa, near Acre in northern
Palestine, he was witness to the events that led to the loss of
Palestine andhis memoir therefore constitutes a vivid social
history of the region, as well as a revealing firsthand account of
the Palestinian national movement almost from its earliest
inception. Family and everyday life, co-villagers, landscapes,
pleasures, outings, schooling, and political figures recreate the
vanished world of Sayigh's formative years in the Levant. An
activist in Palestine, he was taken prisoner of war by the Israelis
in 1948. Later, as an economist, he wrote extensively on Arab oil,
economic development, and manpower, teaching for many years at the
American University of Beirut and taking early retirement in 1974
to work as a consultant for a number of pan-Arab and international
organizations. A single chapter on Palestinian politics provides
insights into his later activist work and experiences of working as
a consultant with the Palestine Liberation Organization to produce
an economic plan for an eventual Palestinian state.
This fascinating memoir by a pioneer and major figure of the
Palestinian national movement is a welcome addition to the growing
literature on Palestinian life during the first half of the
twentieth century as well as an account of some of the most
pressing political and economic issues to have faced the Arab world
for the better part of the twentieth century.
As the Israel-Palestine conflict rages on, it is more important now
than ever to understand the history of the Palestinian people.
Rosemary Sayigh's The Palestinians is a classic of radical history.
Through extensive interviews with Palestinians in refugee camps,
she provides a deeply-moving, grassroots story of how the
Palestinians came to be who they are today. In their own voices,
Palestinians tell stories of the Nabka and their flight from their
homeland. Sayigh's powerful account of Palestinians' economic
marginalisation the social and psychological effects of being
uprooted and the political oppression which they have faced
continues to resonate today. Reissued with an extensive new
foreword by Noam Chomsky, which brings the story that Sayigh tells
up-to-date in the context of the Hamas victory and the war in
Lebanon, this book is both a fascinating historical document and an
essential insight into the situation in the contemporary Middle
East.
***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.
This book brings together testimonials from people of different
nationalities and professions who are 'pro-Palestinian', whether as
scholars, film-makers, artists, musicians, activists, or NGO
workers. Using what oral historians call the ‘focused life
history’, renowned scholar, Rosemary Sayigh, invites her
contributors to describe the experiences, events, motives and
feelings that led them to support the Palestinian cause. The book
is the first of its kind in Palestiniography and includes voices
from countries across the world. A chapter is dedicated to each
country and contributors are asked to reveal how they
‘discovered’ Palestine - given that Palestine is rarely
mentioned in school textbooks or university courses - whether by
travel, friendship, study, membership in a political party or book
group. They are also asked to detail what specific forms their
engagement has taken - ranging scholarly, creative, militant, or
charitable - and what their hopes are for the international
solidarity movement. Finally, each contributor reflects on if they
feel a just and equitable solution can ever be achieved for
Palestinians, and if they accept the label ‘pro-Palestinian’ or
would rather define their relationship to the Palestinians in some
other way. With testimonies from both high profile and grassroots
activists, the book is a rich and personal selection that reflects
the diversity, dynamism and global nature of the movement for
Palestine.
As the Israel-Palestine conflict rages on, it is more important now
than ever to understand the history of the Palestinian people.
Rosemary Sayigh's The Palestinians is a classic of radical history.
Through extensive interviews with Palestinians in refugee camps,
she provides a deeply-moving, grassroots story of how the
Palestinians came to be who they are today. In their own voices,
Palestinians tell stories of the Nabka and their flight from their
homeland. Sayigh's powerful account of Palestinians' economic
marginalisation the social and psychological effects of being
uprooted and the political oppression which they have faced
continues to resonate today. Reissued with an extensive new
foreword by Noam Chomsky, which brings the story that Sayigh tells
up-to-date in the context of the Hamas victory and the war in
Lebanon, this book is both a fascinating historical document and an
essential insight into the situation in the contemporary Middle
East.
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