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Stories from Palestine
2021
Overview
Stories from Palestine profiles Palestinians
engaged in creative and productive pursuits in their everyday lives
in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Their narratives
amplify perspectives and experiences of Palestinians exercising
their own constructive agency.
In Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience ,
Marda Dunsky presents a vivid overview of contemporary Palestinian
society in the venues envisioned for a future Palestinian state.
Dunsky has interviewed women and men from cities, towns, villages,
and refugee camps who are farmers, scientists, writers, cultural
innovators, educators, and entrepreneurs. Using their own words,
she illuminates their resourcefulness in navigating agriculture,
education, and cultural pursuits in the West Bank; persisting in
Jerusalem as a sizable minority in the city; and confronting the
challenges and uncertainties of life in the Gaza Strip. Based on
her in-depth personal interviews, the narratives weave in
quantitative data and historical background from a range of primary
and secondary sources that contextualize Palestinian life under
occupation.
More than a collection of individual stories, Stories from
Palestine presents a broad, crosscut view of the tremendous
human potential of this particular society. Narratives that
emphasize the human dignity of Palestinians pushing forward under
extraordinary circumstances include those of an entrepreneur who
markets the yields of Palestinian farmers determined to continue
cultivating their land, even as the landscape is shrinking; a
professor and medical doctor who aims to improve health in local
Palestinian communities; and an award-winning primary school
teacher who provides her pupils a safe and creative learning
environment. In an era of conflict and divisiveness, Palestinian
resilience is relatable to people around the world who seek to
express themselves, to achieve, to excel, and to be free.
Stories from Palestine creates a new space from which to
consider Palestinians and peace.
The book will interest general readers who want to learn about
contemporary Palestinian life in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the
Gaza Strip beyond oft-repeated themes of oppression and violence,
as well as students and scholars of Israel-Palestine studies, peace
studies, journalistic conflict-zone reporting, and narrative
writing.
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Subject
ISBN
9780268200336, 0268200335, 9780268200350, 0268200351, 9780268200343, 0268200327, 0268200343, 9780268200329
