UID:
almafu_9959234152202883
Format:
1 online resource (384 p.) :
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120 B/W illustrations
ISBN:
0-7486-3403-7
Content:
‘These thoughtful, poignant reflections bring forth vividly some of the human dimensions of one of the great tragedies of current history, the forced dispossession of Palestinians from their homeland.’ - Noam Chomsky‘This handsome collection speaks in a multiplicity of voices and textures that capture the enduring presence of the homeland in every Diasporic home. Palestinians and non-Palestinians will be moved by it in equal measure.’ - Azmi BisharaHow does it feel when you cannot find Palestine under ‘P’ in the encyclopaedia your father brings home? Why cultivate fig and orange trees in the Arizona desert? What does it mean to know every inch of a village you have never seen, a village that no longer exists?In this groundbreaking volume, 102 Palestinians in North America and the United Kingdom reflect in their own words on what it means to be Palestinian in the diaspora. Men and women, young and old, Christians and Muslims, including well-known academics, poets, writers, faith leaders and singers, reveal their tangled ties to ‘home’ and ‘homeland’, exploring how Palestine in the diaspora can be both lost and found, bereaved and celebrated, lived and longed-for.Touching, often troubling, but full of character and wit, the reflections in Being Palestinian offer a radically fresh look at the modern Palestinian experience in the West. And the time-honoured issues of identity, exile and diaspora give acute sense to these very personal reflections.Key FeaturesIncludes reflections from celebrated academics and writers, including Najla Said, Lila Abu Lughod, Ghada Karmi, Naomi-Shihab Nye, Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Sharif Elmusa, Nathalie Handal, Nabil Matar and Khaled HroubThe volume will include up to 20 personal photographs which visually depict the authors’ reflections in the bookCovering the United States, Canada, England, Wales and Scotland, the volume offers fascinating portraits of a community spread across the WestThe first published account of the experiences of the political prisoner Dr Sami Al-Arian
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Prologue --
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Becoming Palestinian --
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Beyond Recitation and Ritual --
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Only Icons --
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Resident of Both, National of None --
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Without my Jaffa: Other Seas --
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Buffeted By How Others See You --
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Disrupting the Peace of Others --
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Fate: A Blessing --
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The Invisible Face of the Occupier --
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A Palestinian State of Mind --
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No Land’s Man Determined to Return to Palestine --
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An Ornithologist from Iceland --
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A Recurring Sound. A Familiar Image --
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A Journey in Progress --
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In Dust --
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Citizen of the World --
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Being Nobody --
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Embracing Uncertainty --
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‘Our Country Lives in Us’ --
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Forever Gazan --
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Ties that Bind, Ties that Sustain --
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Pal.I.Am --
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Things We Carry With Us --
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The Sadness Continues --
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Childhood Curtailed --
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Forty Days of Mourning --
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Seeking ‘Home’ --
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Voices from Within --
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The Tree --
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A Road Taken --
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Living in a World of Double Standards --
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Walking in Her Years --
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Claiming Citizenship --
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Breathing Politics --
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Motherland --
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Painting my Way Back Home One Stitch at a Time --
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A Demon of Hope --
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Contradictory Worlds --
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Bint Liblaad on the Road --
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Darker Shades of Exile --
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Present in Absence --
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Inside as an Outsider --
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Caught Between the Taste of Sunshine and Chopin Nocturnes --
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I See Palestine in my Rear-View Mirror --
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I Am, and I Am Always Becoming --
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Guide to Being Palestinian --
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Memories that Live --
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A Boy from Mash-had --
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Reconciling Araby and America --
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When Will it be Vacant? --
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Living in Letters or the Arrogance of a Cityless Man --
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Palestine in the Nepantla --
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Enduring Ties --
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The Pain and Beauty of Dispossession --
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The Durable Cords of Memory --
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Mujaddara – Arabian Haggis! --
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Still Life --
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Subversive Abstraction --
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Where to Now? --
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Fitting Nowhere --
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Home is Where the Heart is. But Where is Home? --
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A Vision Affirmed --
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Bridge to Palestine --
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Badge of Honour --
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Homemaking --
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Stranger to my Own Story --
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No Room in my Luggage --
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Labyrinth of Memories --
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Palestine the Brave --
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From Ajjur to America: Rootedness in Diaspora --
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In, but not Of --
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Lurching at Jericho --
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Rolling Grape Leaves on a Map of the World --
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An Act of Resistance --
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The Mukhtar and I: A Day with my Grandfather in the Old City --
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Parsley, Miryamiyah, Rosemary and Za‘tar --
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In Search of a Common Language --
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Fostering Palestine --
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Seeds of Justice --
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My Resilient Flag --
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Written on his Forehead: My Father, Aziz Shihab --
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Aiming High --
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My Mother’s Heels --
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Images from a Shattered Mirror --
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Be/longing --
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Eating Forbidden Palestine --
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Palestinian-Something --
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No Paradise to Recreate --
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A Mission to Explain --
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A Heavy, Unwieldy Bag --
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Lost to Geography --
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Transcending Blind Allegiance --
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Still a Palestinian --
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Homing Instincts --
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Born(e) in the Heart --
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Bodily Wounds and the Journey Home --
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Holding Palestine Close to my Heart --
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When All is Not What it Seems --
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The Weight of Our Blessings --
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A Sometime Palestinian --
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Entry Denied --
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Barricaded --
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Glossary
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7486-3402-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780748634033
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748634033
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748634033
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748634033
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748634033
