Voices of the Nakba

Diana Allan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at McGill University. She is a filmmaker and the co-founder of the Nakba Archive. Her ethnography, Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile, (Stanford University Press, 2013) won the MEMO Palestine academic book award and the American Anthropological Association, Middle East Section Award.

'Through the pages of this book the reader can hear, feel, experience and understand more about the Nakba than by reading any other book on the subject'

• List of Figures Map of PalestineAcknowledgementsNote on Translation and Transliteration Foreword by Mahmoud Zeidan Introduction: Past Continuous by Diana Allan PART I: Life in Pre-1948 Palestine1. Village Life in Palestine - Rochelle Davis2. Of Forests and Trees: City Life in 1930s Palestine - Sherene Seikaly3. The Margin and the Centre in Narrating Pre-1948 Palestine - Amirah Silmi4. Mandated Memory: The Schooling of Palestine in Nicola Ziadeh’s and Anis Sayigh’s Pre-1948 Recollections - Dyala HamzahPART II: The British Mandate and Palestinian and Arab Resistance5. Motivations and Tensions of Palestinian Police Service under British Rule - Alex Winder6. Storying the Great Arab Revolt: Narratives of Resistance During 1936–39 - Jacob Norris7. Songs of Resistance - Ted SwedenburgPART III: War and Ethnic Cleansing8. The Roots of the Nakba - Salman Abu Sitta9. Four Villages, Four Stories: Ethnic Cleansing Massacres in al-Jalil - Saleh Abdel Jawad10. Remembering the Fight - Laila ParsonsPART IV: Flight and Exile11. The Dispossession of Lydda - Lena Jayyusi12. Scars of the Mind: Trauma, Gender and Counter-Memories of the Nakba - Ruba Salih13. The Politics of Listening - Cynthia KreichatiAfterword: Oral History in Palestinian Studies by Rosemary Sayigh Contributors and Translators Glossary Notes Index