... PALESTINE IN A TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXT In the three years since the outbreak of the second Intifada in October Timothy 2000, the policy making of the U.S. government has been haunted by the Mitchell, question of Palestine. The Intifada made briefly visible the consequences Gyan Prakash...

...John Collins Duke University Press 2006 Staircase portion of Dani Karavan’s “Passages” monument to Walter Benjamin (Portbou, Spain). Courtesy of the author From Portbou to Palestine and Back Entering the staircase, one is gripped...

...Helga Tawil-Souri In Palestine/Israel, different colored identification cards are mandated by the Israeli state apparatus to Palestinians in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, and those who are citizens of Israel. The article traces the development of the bureaucracy of the Palestinian...

...”; and the attempt to connect Palestinians “inside” and “outside.” © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Hip Hop from ’48 Palestine Youth, Music, and the Present/Absent Sunaina Maira and Magid Shihade This essay sheds light on the ways in which a particular group of Palestin- ian youth offers a critical...

... analyze a transcolonial identification that continues to capture Maghrebi and Mashreqi imaginaries today: the figure of Palestine. Focusing on a 1971 play by the Algerian writer Kateb Yacine and the popular theater troupe Workers’ Cultural Action, Mohamed Take Your Suitcase , I argue that this play co...

...Alex Lubin; Les W. Field; Melanie K. Yazzie; Jakob Schiller In May 2011, the Anthropology Department and the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico offered a class entitled “Technologies of Settler-Colonialism in Israel-Palestine.” This field school was designed...

...Hamzah Baig Contemporary political events in Palestine and the United States have drawn renewed interest in the long history of militant Black-Palestinian solidarity. Although many historical accounts typically begin in the post-1967 Arab-Israeli War moment with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...

... these discursive nodes to formulate an understanding of space that imagines decolonial futurity. This future-oriented political practice works toward a vision of Palestine determined by Palestinians, as opposed to limiting pragmatic wars of maneuver. This inquiry therefore is centrally concerned with the ways...

... of one year to contest the legitimacy of Israeli colonialism and demand their return. The deportation—meant to incapacitate Islamic militant resistance to the US-brokered peace process between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization—paradoxically provided the conditions of possibility...

... agendas and the sensibilities and practices that give it expression. City life is becoming a possibility in Palestine, more than half a century after its urban modernity was aborted by war and occupation. Duke University Press 2008 Urban Modernity on the Periphery A New Middle Class Reinvents...

... movement, has sought to efface Palestinian attachments to and histories in this contested urban realm. This piece foregrounds the life and works of Jewish Israeli philosopher Martin Buber and the binationalist, antistatist politics he sought to build in Palestine with the indigenous Arab populations before...

...Nicholas Mirzoeff Abstract Seeing with Palestine was a constitutive possibility in the anticolonial way of seeing from the moment of the Nakba, meaning “catastrophe,” the destruction of Palestinian society in 1948. This article traces this way of seeing in the genealogy of visual culture...

... a history of botanical classification in herbariums, photographs, and seed libraries in Palestine that stretches back to the nineteenth century. Through individuation and taxonomic ordering, colonial botanical archives isolated plants and people from history and vanished Palestinians from their land...

...Jonathan Beller; Ali Musleh Abstract This written dialogue studies how the “question of genocide” has infiltrated media ecology and come to permeate every meaning, gesture, and relation. Confronting Israel's escalation, since October 2023, of its genocidal siege on Palestine, two writers...

... and backyards, dividing families from each other, and radically restricting Palestinians’ freedom of movement, the wall ends by cutting through the self as powerfully as it bisects Palestinian land. This radical bisection, of self/other, Israel/Palestine...

... that while the history of suffering experienced by the Jews (a long history of anti- Semitism culminating in the Holocaust) has no direct link to the Palestin- ians or the history of Palestine, the Palestinians’ past and current suffering (their dispossession, enforced exile, and continual oppression...

... to explore and Dan Reyes the cultural and political imagination of a people and its sites of production, reproduction, or transformation. Taking our cue from Edward Said’s The Question of Palestine (1979), especially his engagement of George Eliot’s last novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), we ask what we...

..., the instruments of the past are insufficient, we can’t get to the past. . . . . . . Still, I am impressed by some of the methods used to restore Palestine in the meantime. There is the steady trickle of memoirs: the daybooks, journals, albums, diaries, and recollections of various...

... In the Palestinian national narrative, Palestine is metamorphorized as a woman, and an abundance of Palestinian literature uses the metaphor of the woman as a symbol of Palestine. This is seen most clearly in the work of the national poet of Palestine, Mahmoud...