Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory

by Ahmad Sa'di and Ahmad H. Sa'di

Book Overview

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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231135793
• ISBN13: 9780231135795
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher