Diana Allan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at McGill University. She is a filmmaker and the co-founder of the Nakba Archive. Her ethnography, Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile, (Stanford University Press, 2013) won the MEMO Palestine academic book award and the American Anthropological Association, Middle East Section Award.

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Map of Palestine

Acknowledgements

Note on Translation and Transliteration

Foreword by Mahmoud Zeidan

Introduction: Past Continuous by 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 Ziadeh'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

PART III: War and Ethnic Cleansing

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 by Rosemary Sayigh

Contributors and Translators

Glossary

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