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Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Aug 18, 2020
Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, 2021
The American Historical Review, 2020
Adel Manna’s Nakba and Survival: The Story of the Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Gali... more Adel Manna’s Nakba and Survival: The Story of the Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948–1956 appeared in Arabic and Hebrew in 2016–2017. Manna’s book gives voice to the experience of the first generation of Palestinians living within the State of Israel. Here, four scholars of Palestinian and Israeli history review Nakba and Survival and weigh its importance for reckoning with the entangled history of the creation of Israel and the related dispossession of Palestinians during and after 1948.
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2018
Critical Sociology, 2023
Nakba denialism-that is, denying Zionist culpability for the mass expulsions of Palestinian Arabs... more Nakba denialism-that is, denying Zionist culpability for the mass expulsions of Palestinian Arabs from their homeland in 1948-has long been a feature of US discourse on Palestine. Through a content analysis of Leon Uris' 1958 novel, Exodus, I argue that Nakba denialism rests on three anti-Arab racist tropes. The first trope presents Palestinian Arabs as lacking religious attachment to Palestine, the second trope claims they lack modern feelings of national identity, and the third trope claims they are easily induced to commit acts of violence by their ruthless leaders. Through the deployment of these tropes, the Exodus narrative popularized key elements of Nakba denialism in US discourse by blaming the victims of settler colonial violence for the expulsions they faced. More broadly, this article shows how the imbrication of race and settler colonialism functions to epistemologically erase the very acts of settler colonial violence that produce racialized Others.
Journal of Palestine Studies, 2019
This article examines early Palestinian engagements with multiple facets of the Black American st... more This article examines early Palestinian engagements with multiple facets of the Black American struggle for freedom through a content analysis of influential Palestinian press outlets in Arabic prior to 1967. It argues that, since the 1930s, Palestinian intellectuals with strong anti-colonial views linked anti-Black racism in the United States to larger imperial and Cold War dynamics, and that they connected Black American mobilizations against racism to decolonization movements around the world. This article also examines Mahmoud Darwish’s early analytical writings on race as a social construct in both the U.S. and Israeli contexts. Understanding these early engagements sheds light on subsequent developments in Black-Palestinian transnational solidarity and on Palestinian Afro-Arab cultural imaginaries.
Journal of Arabic Literature, 2007
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2013
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2009
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Aug 18, 2020
Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, 2021
The American Historical Review, 2020
Adel Manna’s Nakba and Survival: The Story of the Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Gali... more Adel Manna’s Nakba and Survival: The Story of the Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948–1956 appeared in Arabic and Hebrew in 2016–2017. Manna’s book gives voice to the experience of the first generation of Palestinians living within the State of Israel. Here, four scholars of Palestinian and Israeli history review Nakba and Survival and weigh its importance for reckoning with the entangled history of the creation of Israel and the related dispossession of Palestinians during and after 1948.
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2018
Critical Sociology, 2023
Nakba denialism-that is, denying Zionist culpability for the mass expulsions of Palestinian Arabs... more Nakba denialism-that is, denying Zionist culpability for the mass expulsions of Palestinian Arabs from their homeland in 1948-has long been a feature of US discourse on Palestine. Through a content analysis of Leon Uris' 1958 novel, Exodus, I argue that Nakba denialism rests on three anti-Arab racist tropes. The first trope presents Palestinian Arabs as lacking religious attachment to Palestine, the second trope claims they lack modern feelings of national identity, and the third trope claims they are easily induced to commit acts of violence by their ruthless leaders. Through the deployment of these tropes, the Exodus narrative popularized key elements of Nakba denialism in US discourse by blaming the victims of settler colonial violence for the expulsions they faced. More broadly, this article shows how the imbrication of race and settler colonialism functions to epistemologically erase the very acts of settler colonial violence that produce racialized Others.
Journal of Palestine Studies, 2019
This article examines early Palestinian engagements with multiple facets of the Black American st... more This article examines early Palestinian engagements with multiple facets of the Black American struggle for freedom through a content analysis of influential Palestinian press outlets in Arabic prior to 1967. It argues that, since the 1930s, Palestinian intellectuals with strong anti-colonial views linked anti-Black racism in the United States to larger imperial and Cold War dynamics, and that they connected Black American mobilizations against racism to decolonization movements around the world. This article also examines Mahmoud Darwish’s early analytical writings on race as a social construct in both the U.S. and Israeli contexts. Understanding these early engagements sheds light on subsequent developments in Black-Palestinian transnational solidarity and on Palestinian Afro-Arab cultural imaginaries.
Journal of Arabic Literature, 2007
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2013
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2009