TY  - BOOK
AU  - Muhammad Ali Khalidi
AU  - Perla Issa
AU  - Nadia Fahed
AU  - Intisar Hajaj
AU  - Yafa Talal el-Masri
AU  - Youssef Naanaa
AU  - Rouba Rahme
AU  - Hanin Mohammad Rashid
AU  - Mira Sidawi
AU  - Wedad Taha
AU  - Salem Yassin
AU  - Taha Younis
AU  - Mahmoud Mohammad Zeidan
TI  - 11 Lives: Stories from Palestinian Exile
SN  - 9781682193471
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York, London
PB  - OR Books, Institute for Palestine Studies
KW  - Palestine
KW  - Israeli occupation
KW  - Palestinians
KW  - Personal accounts
KW  - Nakba
KW  - Refugee camps
N2  - "Written by the refugees themselves, this highly original anthology of Palestinians forced to live outside their homeland brings together stories of what it means to be exiled, reflections on the events that led to being displaced, and the raw experience of daily life in a camp.

The 11 lives given voice here are unique, each an expression of the myriad displacements that war and occupation have forced upon Palestinians since the Nakba of 1948. At the same time, they form a collective testament of a people driven from their homes and land by colonial occupation. Each story is singular; and each tells the story of all Palestinians.

As Edward Said argued in 1984, the object of Israel’s colonial warfare is not only material—seeking to minimise Palestinian existence as such—but is also a narrative project that aims to obliterate Palestinian history “as possessed of a coherent narrative direction pointed towards self-determination.”

In these pages, Palestinian refugees narrate their own histories. The product of a creative-writing workshop organized by the Institute for Palestine Studies in Lebanon, 11 Lives tells of children’s adventures in the alleyways of refugee camps, of teenage martyrs and ghosts next-door, of an UNRWA teacher’s dismay at the shallowness of her colleagues, and of the love, labour, and land that form the threads of a red keffiyeh.

What unites these 11 stories is “the inadmissible existence of the Palestinian people” highlighted by Said. Their words persist, as one contributor writes, “between the Nakba and the Naksa, throughout defeats and massacres, love affairs and revolutions.” The stories of Palestinians in exile are also open-ended, and will continue to reverberate across borders until Palestine is free." --Provided by publisher
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