ABSTRACT This paper examines how fellahin resistance beginning in the early parts of the 20th century interacted with the Zionist settler-colonial project, focusing on how this resistance operated on a complex understanding of the relation between the fixity of place and flux of space. Thinking this resistance alongside theories of colonial occupation as well as […]
Farah, Randa (2016). “The Darker Shades of Exile”. In Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora. Yasir Suleiman (ed.), Edinburgh University Press. Pp. 151-160.
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In reading Edward Said, particularly works such as Out of Place and Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, one is left wondering about the peculiar position that Said, the “exile,” holds in relation to writing. In this essay, I examine this relation by following and exploring the figure of exile that permeates Said’s many writings.
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Abstract Drawing on ethnographic field research, this analysis compares the evolution of refugee camps as incubators of political organization and repositories of collective memory for Palestinian refugees in Jordan and Sahrawi refugees of the Western Sahara. While recognizing the significant differences between the historical and geopolitical contexts of the two groups and their national movements
Hamzah, Dyala (2008). « Lutte nationale ou fondation étatique ? Les intellectuels palestiniens, d’Oslo I à Intifada II », Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 123 | 2008, 161-177.
Abstract The Oslo agreements proposed a two-state solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza existing alongside Israel. However, the refugees’ right of return and claims to land and property expropriated by Israel during the 1948 were removed from the equation, although they represent the core issues in the