Cover
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Foreword
Mahmoud Zeidan
Introduction: Past Continuous
Diana Allan
Part I: Life in Pre-1948 Palestine
1. Village Life in Palestine
Rochelle Davis
2. Of Forests and Trees: City Life in 1930s Palestine
Sherene Seikaly
3. The Margin and the Centre in Narrating Pre-1948 Palestine
Amirah Silmi
4. Mandated Memory: The Schooling of Palestine in Nicola Zaideh's and Anis Sayigh's Pre-1948 Recollections
Dyala Hamzah
Part II: The British Mandate and Palestinian and Arab Resistance
5. Motivations and Tensions of Palestinian Police Service Under British Rule
Alex Winder
6. Storying the Great Arab Revolt: Narratives of Resistance During 1936-39
Jacob Norris
7. Songs of Resistance
Ted Swedenburg
8. The Roots of the Nakba
Salman Abu Sitta
9. Four Villages, Four Stories: Ethnic Cleansing Massacres in al-Jalil
Saleh Abdel Jawad
10. Remembering the Fight
Laila Parsons
Part IV: Flight and Exile
11. The Dispossession of Lydda
Lena Jayyusi
12. Scars of the Mind: Trauma, Gender and Counter-Memories of the Nakba
Ruba Salih
13. The Politics of Listening
Cynthia Kreichati
Afterword: Oral History in Palestinian Studies
Rosemary Sayigh
Contributors and Translators
Glossary
Notes
Index