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Refugees, Palestinian Arab; biography. Salman Abu Sitta was just ten years old when the Nakba--the mass expulsion of Palestinians in 1948--happened, forcing him from his home near Beersheba. Like many Palestinians of his generation, this traumatic loss and his enduring desire t…
Salman Abu Sitta, who has single-handedly made available crucial mapping work on Palestine, was just ten years old when he left his home near Beersheba in 1948, but as for many Palestinians of his generation, the profound effects of that traumatic loss would form the defining fe…
By focusing on memories of the Nakba, or "catastrophe," of 1948, in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were dispossessed to create the state of Israel, the contributors to this volume illuminate the contemporary Palestinian experience and clarify the moral claims they m…
Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the claims of memory
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Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the claims of memory
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For outside observers, current events in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank are seldom related to the collective memory of ordinary Palestinians. But for Palestinians themselves, the iniquities of the present are experienced as a continuous replay of the injustice of the past. By f…
Contributors examine how the Nakba has shaped the personal and collective memory of Palestinians and how that memory impels their claims for justice.