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{"title":"Palestinian Modernism: Meaning Making and Alternative Historical Practices in Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail","authors":"Fatima Aamir","doi":"10.1080/0377919X.2022.2040323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2022.2040323","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores both the collapse of Palestinian futurity and practices of alternative meaning making in Adania Shibli’s novel Minor Detail. Through her unique negotiation with Palestinian literary modernism, including her defamiliarizing engagement of realist aesthetics within the text, as well as the defining role she assigns Israeli settler colonialism in producing modernist alienation, Shibli troubles historical truth and avoids the close-ended museumification of events. Despite the collapse of Palestinian futurity within the text, Shibli’s literary experimentation creates gaps not only in the totalizing nature of Israeli occupation, but also in its historical hegemony, reflecting the practice of what Ariella Azoulay terms “potential history.” While Shibli’s stuttering and irrational Palestinian narrator, as well as the ambiguous nature of her narrative form, might not reflect straightforward resistance to settler-colonial totality, they unsettle historical narrative from within and open up new ways to consider truth and meaning.","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47672522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, Awareness, and Revolution in the Middle East","authors":"Lyndall Herman","doi":"10.1080/0377919X.2022.2040325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2022.2040325","url":null,"abstract":"ideologically. What stood between the PFLP and such an achievement, we learn, was the pan-Arab ideological background of its founding leadership, the limited theoretical capacities of its secretary-general, George Habash, and its rigid organizational structure. The book’s narrative fails to highlight these factors and their role in the PFLP’s dilemma. Leopardi’s contribution lies in framing and giving an overview of the PFLP’s conduct between 1982–2007. The concepts Leopardi utilizes, such as “opposition-integration dilemma,” demonstrate analytical potential for the study of the Palestinian Left and opposition movements in general. At a time when unity is invoked as a solution to the Palestinian “impasse,” Leopardi’s argument that the pursuit of unity both reflected and contributed to the PFLP’s marginality provides a critical perspective worth considering. Furthermore, Leopardi presents fruitful avenues for future research—such as his brief comparison of the Palestinian and Kurdish Left. For these reasons, and despite its shortcomings, this book is a welcome addition to studies of the PRM and the Palestinian Left specifically.","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42438495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Struggling to Be Seen: The Travails of Palestinian Cinema","authors":"Samirah Alkassim","doi":"10.1080/0377919X.2022.2040881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2022.2040881","url":null,"abstract":"In this slim and affordable book, Anandi Ramamurthy and Paul Kelemen write with authority from their respective engagements as professors, curators, and activists. Struggling to Be Seen: The Travails of Palestinian Cinema educates newcomers to the Palestinian struggle, but it can also be appreciated by the Palestine-solidarity base for its concise overview of the challenges, past and present, characterizing Palestinian cinema. As such, it delivers the objectives of its publisher, Daraja Press, in creating cultures of solidarity and supporting emancipatory struggles of oppressed people across the world. Relying on primary documents and field-based methodology, this book offers an accessible primer for undergraduate and graduate classes, as well as the general public. It consists of an introduction, six short chapters, a conclusion, and twenty pages of back matter, including a filmography and four appendices that provide colorful visual documentations corresponding to the chapters. Across these components, the authors identify essential issues and challenges from production to exhibition and reception, key figures and texts, and recommended films. In so doing, they situate the creation and sustenance of Palestinian cinema as crucial to countering the erasure of Palestine, particularly when screened within Western cultural centers. They frame their book as the outcome of collaborative research conducted with Palestinian film organizations and British cultural organizations to examine the programming of Palestinian cinema in the UK, which they offer as potentially instructive to such programming in other countries. This comparison is clarified in the chapters described below. The book skims the history of Palestinian filmmaking (chapter 1, pp. 7–12), presenting examples of contemporary resistance through collective endeavors focused on building film culture in Palestine. It follows organizations like Filmlab in Ramallah (chapter 2, pp. 13–19), Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture in Bethlehem, and the Palestine Film Institute in Jerusalem (chapter 1) to demonstrate the continuity of Palestinian cinema despite the challenges created by the political impasse of the Israeli occupation. The authors’ main concern with the preservation of Palestinian cinema is evidenced (chapter 3, pp. 20–28) in the experience they recount of restoring five revolutionary films held in private collections, to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the Nakba. They provide short analyses of several films, both fiction and documentary (chapter 4, pp. 29–35), that exemplify the difficulties of checkpoints, borders, exile, and displacement that have asserted their thematic significance in Palestinian cinema. They note (chapter 5, pp. 36–42) the increasing number of Palestinian filmmakers since the early 2000s and discuss the necessity of creating spaces and opportunities to see their films while trying to reach wider audiences beyond the base. Lastly, they add","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41269460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In the Shadow of War: The Journal of Palestine Studies as Archive","authors":"S. Seikaly","doi":"10.1080/0377919X.2022.2050630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2022.2050630","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article, coeditor Sherene Seikaly examines the Journal of Palestine Studies’ first two decades as the premier English-language academic publication on the Palestinian question and what was once referred to as the Arab-Israeli conflict. Using the keyword “war” in article titles as a prism for a granular analysis of the knowledge produced in the Journal, Seikaly traces some of the trends that undergirded JPS’s evolution—its prescriptive, programmatic, and prognosticating approach that was deeply imbricated in the patriarchal paradigms of international relations and political science (Revolution with a capital “R,” the “great men” of history, the imperative to make one’s case before the colonizer), but also a capacious space to view the contested terrain of knowledge production. A close reading of seventeen articles and one interview over the arc of twenty years illuminates the Journal’s pivotal role as a repository of primary and secondary literature and as an archive of Palestine and the Palestinians.","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48703238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Two Deaths: A Reflection on Architecture, Carcerality, and Palestine","authors":"L. Lambert","doi":"10.1080/0377919x.2022.2044184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919x.2022.2044184","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this essay, architect-activist and Funambulist editor-in-chief Léopold Lambert reflects on the ways that the architectural profession can be, and historically has been, complicit in structural injustice. He ties together the seemingly unrelated deaths of two men, uncovering in the process how architecture consecrates, amplifies, or abets oppression, be it in the settler-colonial context of occupied Palestine, in the French criminal justice system, or in the historical framework of the transatlantic slave trade.","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41778798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Palestinian Left and Its Decline: Loyal Opposition","authors":"Faiq Mari","doi":"10.1080/0377919X.2022.2040331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2022.2040331","url":null,"abstract":"describe their challenges and successes in curating a program of short films in the UK as part of the seventieth anniversary of the Nakba in collaboration with the Sheffield Palestine Cultural Exchange, a cultural organization. They discuss their success in attracting a wider audience by programming around the universal theme of love, which allowed for reflection on the different types of love that connect to the usurpation of Palestinian land, the history of ethnic cleansing, and life under occupation. Perhaps it is unfortunate that facts and the systemic racism supporting Israeli settler-colonial occupation are not always enough to command the attention of mainstream audiences, but that is precisely why accessible books like this are so valuable. It is the perfect companion for a focused Palestine-themed film screening, series, or festival, where the aim is not only to reach the base of supporters in celebration of Palestinian and Arab cinema but to educate a wider audience about the ongoing struggles faced by Palestinians as demonstrated through their films. The authors conclude by optimistically observing that the achievements of Palestinian cinema “are enduring and signal a growing international sympathy” for the Palestinian cause (p. 54), despite the intensified precarity for Palestinian cinema and solidarity activism. While the histories of this subject are more deeply analyzed elsewhere, the authors provide an encounter that invites research, collaboration, and involvement, modeling the activity of building film culture as a contemporary means of advancing justice for Palestine.","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41431304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How to Crush Palestinian NGOs: Just Use the “T” Word","authors":"Diana Buttu","doi":"10.1080/0377919x.2022.2040880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919x.2022.2040880","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Israel has long sought to erase Palestinians, Palestinian resistance, and Palestinian organizations. In Israel’s latest rendition of erasure, Palestinian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have become the new target. By labeling NGO staff, and now NGOs, as “terror-affiliated,” Israel is attempting to silence these organizations by making it impossible for them to be funded. Looking at the case of Mohammed El Halabi from World Vision, one can see that it does not take much for donors to run scared: just using the “t” word is sufficient, with no need for evidence.","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48432730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization","authors":"Marya Farah","doi":"10.1080/0377919x.2022.2043136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919x.2022.2043136","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47326488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine","authors":"N. Perugini","doi":"10.1080/0377919x.2022.2040883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919x.2022.2040883","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46713121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lightning through the Clouds: ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle East","authors":"A. Halabi","doi":"10.1080/0377919X.2021.2013032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2021.2013032","url":null,"abstract":"Even before Shaykh ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam was buried, several groups had already claimed him as their own. They draped his corpse in the Iraqi flag and those of his companions in the flags of other independent Arab states. Although al-Qassam (b. 1883) died nearly a century ago in November 1935, an array of different, if not opposing, groups have since appropriated his image and memory. Before Hamas named a brigade in his honor and intifada communiqués evoked his legacy, leftist groups had already hailed him as an “Arab Che Guevara.” Mark Sanagan’s masterful study of this iconic figure tackles these conflicting and contested interpretations of his legacy. Based on extensive archival research, as well as memoirs, newspapers, and interviews, this study challenges conventional works that treat the events of alQassam’s life as a prologue to his martyrdom in 1935. These works reduce the Syrian-born scholar’s life to simplistic characterizations, such as “anti-colonial,” “Palestinian nationalist,” “jihadist,” and “Salafi.” Citing Ted Swedenburg’s study on early biographies of al-Qassam,* Sanagan explains, “There has been no hegemonic ‘national’ interpretation of al-Qassam imprinted on the minds of Palestinians.” As a result, al-Qassam has become “a sort of nationalist tabula rasa,” subject to the many claims over his memory and legacy by different Palestinian groups and writers (p. 3). As a result, Sanagan produces a social biography of al-Qassam in this lucidly written work accessible to a wide range of audiences. He contextualizes al-Qassam’s life story in the larger sociohistorical environment of the late-Ottoman and post–World War I Arab East (mashriq). A social biography, as Sanagan demonstrates, is “dialectic”—it reveals how the environment shaped the life of a single individual, just as it explains that environment through the lens of an individual (p. 6). The first three chapters explore al-Qassam’s life before arriving in Palestine in 1921. He grew up in Jabla, Syria (120 miles southwest of Aleppo), where his family was active in the Qadiri Sufi order. Al-Qassam favored the Naqshbandiyya Sufi order’s understanding of “sober” mysticism grounded in strict adherence to the sharia. Later, that Sufism was mixed with a Salafism that he encountered while studying at al-Azhar University in Cairo. Sanagan avoids debates about al-Qassam as either a “Salafi” or a “Sufi,” demonstrating how both these religious ideals shaped how he understood proper Islamic practice and Islam’s relevance to the larger umma. These beliefs inspired him to assemble fighters to defend Libya against Italian occupation and take up arms against the French in Syria after World War I. After eluding a French death sentence, al-Qassam found refuge in Haifa, the topic of the following five chapters. In Haifa, al-Qassam cultivated a relationship with the city’s swelling labor force that had been pushed out of their surrounding villages because of global capitalism, British colonialism, a","PeriodicalId":46375,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Palestine Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41583711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}