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Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures) by Diana Allan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their "right of return." Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a way of life that ended abruptly with "the catastrophe" of 1948 and their camps--inhabited now for four generations--as mere zones of waiting. While reducing refugees to symbols of steadfast single-mindedness has been politically expedient to both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict it comes at a tremendous cost for refugees themselves, overlooking their individual memories and aspirations and obscuring their collective culture in exile. Refugees of the Revolution is an evocative and provocative examination of everyday life in Shatila, a refugee camp in Beirut. Challenging common assumptions about Palestinian identity and nationalist politics, Diana Allan provides an immersive account of camp experience, of communal and economic life as well as inner lives, tracking how residents relate across generations, cope with poverty and marginalization, and plan--pragmatically and speculatively--for the
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- Author
- Diana Allan
- Publisher
- Stanford, California: Stanford University Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780804774925
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Anthropology, Islam
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