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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521865123

ISBN-139780521865128

eBay Product ID (ePID)63731552

Product Key Features

Number of Pages274 Pages

Publication NameHeroes and Martyrs of Palestine : the Politics of National Commemoration

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2007

SubjectReligious, General, World / Middle Eastern

TypeTextbook

AuthorLaleh Khalili

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography

SeriesCambridge Middle East Studies

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight20.2 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2006-037412

Reviews"Khalili is to be congratulated for her perception that commemorative practices would offer an illuminating path to reworking a history that combines tragedy and resistance in unusual measure. The skill with which she brings together wide-ranging archival research and live-in observation has produced an outstanding study that balances cool analysis with lively sympathy." - Middle East Report, Winter 2007, '... this book is well worth the investment - or encouraging your institutional library to purchase. As media and academia persist in endlessly discussing the role of 'militants' in the contemporary Middle East, Khalili points to the active role of NGOs in the shaping of Palestinian national discourse and narrative.' al-Majdal Quarterly Magazine, Review of the hardback: 'This eloquent, engaging, well-researched book ... is an essential volume in any collection on Palestinian politics and society.' Amahl Bishara, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Review of the hardback: 'â€¦ this book is well worth the investment - or encouraging your institutional library to purchase. As media and academia persist in endlessly discussing the role of 'militants' in the contemporary Middle East, Khalili points to the active role of NGOs in the shaping of Palestinian national discourse and narrative.' al-Majdal Quarterly Magazine, Review of the hardback: 'Khalili is to be congratulated for her perception that commemorative practices would offer an illuminating path to reworking a history that combines tragedy and resistance in unusual measure. The skill with which she brings together wide-ranging archival research and live-in observation has produced an outstanding study that balances cool analysis with lively sympathy.' Rosemary Sayigh, Middle East Report, Review of the hardback: '... this book is well worth the investment - or encouraging your institutional library to purchase. As media and academia persist in endlessly discussing the role of 'militants' in the contemporary Middle East, Khalili points to the active role of NGOs in the shaping of Palestinian national discourse and narrative.' al-Majdal Quarterly Magazine

Dewey Edition22

Series Volume NumberSeries Number 27

Dewey Decimal956.9405

Table Of Content1. Introduction; 2. Transnational movements and discourses; 3. Palestinian lives and local institutions in the camps of Lebanon; 4. Forms of commemoration; 5. Contents of commemoration: narratives of heroism, suffering, and Sumud; 6. Guerrillas and martyrs: evolution of national 'heroes'; 7. Between battles and massacres: commemorating violent events; 8. Commemoration in the occupied Palestinian territories; 9. Conclusions; Bibliography.

SynopsisMany decades have passed since the Palestinian national movement began its political and military struggle. In that time, poignant memorials at massacre sites, a palimpsest of posters of young heroes and martyrs, sorrowful reminiscences about lost loved ones, and wistful images of young men and women who fought as guerrillas, have all flourished in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine tells the story of how dispossessed Palestinians have commemorated their past, and how through their dynamic everyday narrations, their nation has been made even without the institutional memory-making of a state. Bringing ethnography to political science, Khalili invites us to see Palestinian nationalism in its proper international context and traces its affinities with Third Worldist movements of its time, while tapping a rich and oft-ignored seam of Palestinian voices, histories, and memories., Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine tells the story of how dispossessed Palestinians have commemorated their past, and how through their dynamic everyday narrations, their nation has been made even without the institutional memory-making of a state. Bringing ethnography to political science, Khalili invites us to see Palestinian nationalism in its international context.

LC Classification NumberDS113.6 .K37 2007