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Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine
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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.

Languageالعربية
PublisherPluto Press
Release dateSep 20, 2021
ISBN9780745342931
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine
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Rosemary Sayigh

Rosemary Sayigh is a social anthropologist, researcher and author. She has been based in Beirut for several decades, and has spent a lifetime researching the impact of the Israel-Palestine conflict on Palestinian refugees. She is also the author of Too Many Enemies: The Palestinian Experience in Lebanon (Zed Books, 1994).

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