{"id":2890,"date":"2023-03-18T10:20:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T07:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2023-03-19T22:30:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T19:30:40","slug":"11lives-stories-from-palestinian-exil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/?p=2890","title":{"rendered":"11Lives: Stories from Palestinian Exile"},"content":{"rendered":"
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11Lives: Stories from Palestinian Exile<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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AUTHOR:<\/div>\n
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Muhammad Ali Khalidi<\/div>\n
Perla Issa<\/div>\n
Nadia Fahed<\/div>\n
Intisar Hajaj<\/div>\n
Yafa Talal el-Masri<\/div>\n
Youssef Naanaa<\/div>\n
Rouba Rahmeh<\/div>\n
Hanin Mohammad Rashid<\/div>\n
Mira Sidawi<\/div>\n
Wedad Taha<\/div>\n
Salem Yassin<\/div>\n
Taha Younis<\/div>\n
Mahmoud Mohammad Zeidan<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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CONTRIBUTORS:<\/div>\n
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Muhammad Ali Khalidi<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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PUBLISHER:<\/div>\n
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Institute for Palestine Studies and O\/R Books<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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PUBLICATION YEAR:<\/div>\n
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2022<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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LANGUAGE:<\/div>\n
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English<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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240<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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TABLE OF CONTENT<\/div>\n
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ABSTRACT<\/div>\n
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Written by the refugees themselves, this highly original anthology of Palestinians forced to live outside their homeland brings together stories of what it means to be exiled, reflections on the events that led to being displaced, and the raw experience of daily life in a camp.\u00a0Edited and translated by Muhammad Ali Khalidi with an introduction by Perla Issa.<\/p>\n

The 11 lives given voice here are unique, each an expression of the myriad displacements that war and occupation have forced upon Palestinians since the Nakba of 1948. At the same time, they form a collective testament of a people driven from their homes and land by colonial occupation. Each story is singular; and each tells the story of all Palestinians.<\/p>\n

As Edward Said argued in 1984, the object of Israel’s colonial warfare is not only material\u2014seeking to minimise Palestinian existence as such\u2014but is also a narrative project that aims to obliterate Palestinian history \u201cas possessed of a coherent narrative direction pointed towards self-determination.\u201d<\/p>\n

In these pages, Palestinian refugees narrate their own histories. The product of a creative-writing workshop organized by the Institute for Palestine Studies in Lebanon,\u00a011 Lives<\/em>\u00a0tells of children’s adventures in the alleyways of refugee camps, of teenage martyrs and ghosts next-door, of an UNRWA teacher’s dismay at the shallowness of her colleagues, and of the love, labour, and land that form the threads of a red keffiyeh.<\/p>\n

What unites these 11 stories is \u201cthe inadmissible existence of the Palestinian people\u201d highlighted by Said. Their words persist, as one contributor writes, \u201cbetween the Nakba and the Naksa, throughout defeats and massacres, love affairs and revolutions.\u201d The stories of Palestinians in exile are also open-ended, and will continue to reverberate across borders until Palestine is free.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis marvelous book lifts the veil of anonymity that has long concealed the reality of refugees, not as UN statistics, but as human beings with stories to tell.\u201d
\n\u2014Ghada Karmi, Palestinian doctor, writer, and Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter<\/p>\n

\u201cVivid accounts of a world we know too little about\u201d
\n\u2014Caryl Churchill, playwright<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a book of remarkable lives, written by remarkable people, whose stories are to savour\u201d
\n\u2014Elizabeth Laird, children’s fiction and travel writer<\/p>\n

\u201cStories about contemporary Palestinians are few and far between in English, let alone stories told in\u2014and by\u2014non-elite, diasporic Palestinian voices. The volume brings a vibrancy and vitality to these stories that reminds the reader of the multitudinous experience of Palestinian refugees\u201d
\n\u2014Ghenwa Hayek, Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature, University of Chicago<\/p>\n

\u201cThe triumph of this unique book is how it manages to unite the indomitable spirit of Palestinian survival with the transformative potential of first-person narratives.\u00a011 Lives\u00a0is a deeply humane, precisely detailed, and intimately drawn collection of refugee stories that reveals more about life as a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon\u2014with all the major pitfalls, daily joys, and absolute steadfastness\u2014than any newspaper report, academic treatise, or NGO study ever could.\u201d
\n\u2014Moustafa Bayoumi, award winning author of\u00a0The Muslim American Life<\/p>\n

\u201cOffers an assiduous, kaleidoscopic look at life for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon against the tide of a literary supply-chain that demands extractive and paternalistic refugee stories, seldom written by refugees themselves.\u201d
\n\u2014Mohammed El-Kurd, Palestinian writer and poet<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/div>\n
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Muhammad Ali Khalidi\u00a0<\/strong>is Presidential Professor of Philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center, where he teaches and publishes in the philosophy of science. He has written on various aspects of the question of Palestine, including Palestinian refugee rights. His edited volume,\u00a0Manifestations of Identity: The Lived Reality of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon<\/em>, was published by the Institute of Palestine Studies in 2010. He has translated a wide range of texts from Arabic into English, including the collection,\u00a0Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings<\/em>. He was born in Lebanon to a Lebanese mother and a Palestinian father.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

11Lives: Stories from Palestinian Exile AUTHOR: Muhammad Ali Khalidi Perla Issa Nadia Fahed Intisar Hajaj Yafa Talal el-Masri Youssef Naanaa Rouba Rahmeh Hanin Mohammad Rashid Mira Sidawi Wedad Taha Salem Yassin Taha Younis Mahmoud Mohammad Zeidan CONTRIBUTORS: Editor and Translator : Muhammad Ali Khalidi PUBLISHER: Institute for Palestine Studies and O\/R Books PUBLICATION YEAR: 2022 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}