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“nahla abdo”

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  • Captive Revolution

    Palestinian Women's Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System

    by Nahla Abdo ...
    Women throughout the world have always played their part in struggles against colonialism, imperialism and other forms of oppression. However, there are few books on Arab political prisoners, fewer still on the Palestinians who have been detained in their thousands for their political activism and resistance.Nahla Abdo's Captive Revolution seeks to break the silence on Palestinian women political ... Read more

    $29.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba

    Edited by Doctor Nahla Abdo, Nur Masalha ...
    In 2018, Palestinians mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when over 750,000 people were uprooted and forced to flee their homes in the early days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even today, the bitterness and trauma of the Nakba remains raw, and it has become the pivotal event both in the shaping of Palestinian identity and in galvanising the resistance to occupation.Unearthing an ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation

    Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation

    Edited by Nahla Abdo, Ronit Lentin ...
    As the crisis in Israel does not show any signs of abating, this remarkable collection, edited by an Israeli and a Palestinian scholar and with contributions by Palestinian and Israeli women, offers a vivid and harrowing picture of the conflict and of its impact on daily life, especially as it affects women's experiences that differ significantly from those of men.The (auto)biographical narratives ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Women in Israel

    Race, Gender and Citizenship

    by Doctor Nahla Abdo ...
    Women in Israel provides a fresh, gendered analysis of citizenship in Israel.Working from a framework of Israel as a settler-colonial regime, this important, insightful book presents historical and contemporary comparative approaches to the lives and experiences of Ashkenazi, Mizrahi and Palestinian Arab women citizens.Nahla Abdo shows that no solution to the problems of the region can be found ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

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  • Iranophobia

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  • Remembering Palestine in 1948

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    by Efrat Ben-Ze'ev ...
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    The war of 1948 in Palestine is a conflict whose history has been written primarily from the national point of view. This book asks what happens when narratives of war arise out of personal stories of those who were involved, stories that are still unfolding. Efrat Ben-Ze'ev examines the memories of those who participated and were affected by the events of 1948, and how these events have been ... Read more

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  • Clash of Identities

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    What is Iran? What are its domestic politics? Its history? Its international relations? Here, Arshin Adib-Moghaddam sheds fresh light on these questions, offering a general introduction to everything there is to know about this country. Uniquely, he uses musical pieces as a way to offer a holistic understanding of the full spectrum of Iranian affairs. As a result, even the general reader is ... Read more

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  • Palestinian Women

    Narrative Histories and Gendered Memory

    by Fatma Kassem ...
    Palestinian Women is the first book to examine and document the experiences and the historical narrative of ordinary Palestinian women who witnessed the events of 1948 and became involuntary citizens of the State of Israel.Told in their own words, the women's experiences serve as a window for examining the complex intersections of gender, nationalism and citizenship in a situation of ongoing ... Read more

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