This book brings together testimonials from people of different nationalities and professions who are 'pro-Palestinian', whether as scholars, film-makers, artists, musicians, activists, or NGO workers. Using what oral historians call the ‘focused life history’, renowned scholar, Rosemary Sayigh, invites her contributors to describe the experiences, events, motives and feelings that led them to support the Palestinian cause.
The book is the first of its kind in Palestiniography and includes voices from countries across the world. A chapter is dedicated to each country and contributors are asked to reveal how they ‘discovered’ Palestine - given that Palestine is rarely mentioned in school textbooks or university courses - whether by travel, friendship, study, membership in a political party or book group. They are also asked to detail what specific forms their engagement has taken - ranging scholarly, creative, militant, or charitable - and what their hopes are for the international solidarity movement. Finally, each contributor reflects on if they feel a just and equitable solution can ever be achieved for Palestinians, and if they accept the label ‘pro-Palestinian’ or would rather define their relationship to the Palestinians in some other way.
With testimonies from both high profile and grassroots activists, the book is a rich and personal selection that reflects the diversity, dynamism and global nature of the movement for Palestine.
Edited by:
Rosemary Sayigh
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780755692088
ISBN 10: 075569208X
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 22 February 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgements Preface, Noam Chomsky Foreword, Rosemary Sayigh MIDDLE EAST Hadi Borhani, Iran Amira Hass, Occupied Palestinian West Bank Sanem Ozturk, Turkey Ilan Pappe, Israel/UK SOUTH ASIA M.H.Ilias, India Vijay Prashad, India/Lebanon EAST ASIA Ang Swee Chai, Singapore/UK Eisuke Naramoto, Japan Ryantori, Indonesia Hiroyuki Suzuki, Japan AFRICA Suraya Dadoo, South Africa Farid Esack, South Africa Naeem Jeenah, South Africa Zahid Rajan, Kenya NORTH AMERICA Penny Johnson, US/West Bank Dimitri Lascaris, Canada Rafi Silver, Canada Naomi Wallace, US/UK EUROPE Lori Allen, US/UK Helga Baumgarten, Germany/Jerusalem Sophia Deeg, Germany Elisabetta Donini, Italy Jane Frere, Scotland Chris Giannou, Greece Matts Grorud, Norway Roger Heacock, France/West Bank Anni Kanafani, Denmark/Lebanon Monica Maurer, Germany David McDowall, UK Philomena McKenna, Ireland Luisa Morgantini, Italy Birgitte Rahbek, Denmark Leena Saraste, Finland Lex Takkenberg,the Netherlands Toine van Teeffelen, Netherlands/Bethlehem Klaudia Wieser, Austria AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND Stuart Rees, Australia Janfrie Wakim, New Zealand LATIN AMERICA Bianca Marcossi, Brazil O. Hugo Benavides, Ecuador Helena de Morais Manfrinato Othman, Brazil Natalia Revale, Argentine Biographies of Contributors Further Reading Index
Rosemary Sayigh is a renowned journalist and scholar of Middle Eastern history, having published ground-breaking works on the Palestinian people including Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries (1979) and Too Many Enemies: The Palestinian Experience in Lebanon (1993). In 2024 the Palestine Book Awards presented Sayigh with the Lifetime Achievement Award for her work on recording the displacement narratives of Palestinian women. She taught oral history at Birzeit University, Palestine, and at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. She received her BA at Oxford University, UK in 1948 and her PhD at Hull University, UK in 1994.
Reviews for Becoming Pro-Palestinian: Testimonies from the Global Solidarity Movement
This is a timely and much-needed collection edited by a world-renowned anthropologist and Palestine solidarity activist. It presents stories of some of the myriad activists around the world for whom the term ‘pro-Palestinian’ is not just an adjective of personal identity but also a life trajectory. * Michael R. Fischbach, Professor, Randolph-Macon College, U.S.A. *
