Bereavement of Martyred Palestinian Children

Maram Masarwi is Lecturer and Researcher at the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She also teaches at the Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education, Israel. She holds a PhD from the Department of Social Work at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and an MA in Education from Lesley University, UK.

“The Bereavement of Martyred Palestinian Children: Gendered, Religious and National Perspectives is a fascinating book that commemorates the Palestinian trauma, martyrs and their parents. … this book makes a substantial contribution and is an indispensable contribution to the literatures on trauma, bereavement, memory, martyrdom, conflict, life-writing, masculinity, terrorism and gender studies.” (Journal of Contemporary Asia, February 3, 2020)

• Introduction.- Overview: Coping with bereavement and trauma.- Part One: Loss as individual and collective.- Part Two: Gender, religion and nationalism in the grieving process.- Part Three: Coping with bereavement in the religious, cultural and societal contexts: How religion and culture shape bereavement.- Part Four: National identity and the way bereaved parents cope.- Part Five: The politics of memory and commemoration.