Description
"What It Means to be Palestinian" is a narrative of narratives, a collection of personal stories, remembered feelings and reconstructed experiences by different Palestinians whose lives were changed and shaped by history. Their stories are told chronologically through particular phases of the Palestinian national struggle, providing a composite autobiography of Palestine as a landscape and as a people. The book begins with the 1936 revolt against British rule in Palestine and ends in 1993, with the Oslo peace agreement that changed the nature and form of the national struggle. It is based on in-depth interviews and conversations with Palestinians, male and female, old and young, rich and poor, religious and secular, in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the Occupied Territories. Presented as remembered personal narratives and as 'social' histories, these conversations provide a deep & intimate account of what it means to be Palestinian in the 21st century.
Author: Dina Matar
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 12/15/2010
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781848853638
ISBN10: 1848853637
BISAC Categories:
- History | Middle East | General
- History | Modern | 21st Century
Author: Dina Matar
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 12/15/2010
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781848853638
ISBN10: 1848853637
BISAC Categories:
- History | Middle East | General
- History | Modern | 21st Century
About the Author
Dina Matar is lecturer in Arab Media and International Political Communication at the Centre for Film and Media Studies, the School of Oriental and African Studies. She was formerly a foreign correspondent and editor covering the Middle East, Europe and Africa. She is also a co-editor of the 'Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication'.