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Title: |
A White Lie |
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| By (author): |
Madeeha Hafez Albatta Edited by: Barbara Bill, Ghada Ageel |
| ISBN10-13: |
1772124923 : 9781772124927 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
215x139x9mm |
| Pages: |
236 |
| Weight: |
.204 Kg. |
| Published: |
University of Alberta Press - October 2020 |
| List Price: |
19.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 15 |
| Subjects: |
Biography: general : Memoirs : Anthologies (non-poetry) : Oral history : Middle East |
| This first narrative in the Womenâ s Voices from Gaza Series turns the clock back more than ninety years and invites readers on a journey of reimagining a once-upon-a-time in Palestine. Madeeha Hafez Albattaâ s story recounts a life of happiness, uncertainty, loss, and also, ultimately, of pride, resistance, and hope. Weaving together many narrative threads, A White Lie unearths a version of history long excluded from mainstream discourse, illuminating a vibrant culture, rich community relations, old traditions, and grand resistance. Madeeha was born and raised in Khan Younis, a town in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and her life took her, along with her family, across mandatory Palestine to Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Tunis, the United States, Germany, Greece, Austria, and Canada. In 1938, Madeeha had to resort to tricking her family into allowing her to attend college. That â white lieâ changed her life forever. She became a teacher while still in her teens and then the principal of a school while in her early twenties. As a teacher and headmistress, a campaigner for rights, an activist and community organizer, a mother, and a champion of dignity, Madeeha witnessed some of the most turbulent periods of Palestineâ s recent history. Her narrative preserves minute details of distinctly Palestinian individual and collective life through different eras and regimes. It depicts a vibrant culture, old traditions, customs, and other critical features of Palestinian society that readers rarely encounter. The Womenâ s Voices from Gaza Series honours womenâ s unique and underrepresented perspectives on the social, material, and political realities of Palestinian life. Foreword by Salman Abu Sitta. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Contents Preface ix Foreword xv Acknowledgements xxiii Introduction xxv A White Lie 1 / Childhood Days 3 2 / School Days 23 3 / Marriage 39 4 / Massacre 51 5 / Occupation 65 6 / Black September 87 7 / 1973 War 103 8 / Waiting for the Curtain to Rise 111 Chronology of Events in Palestine 129 Notes 149 Glossary 167 Bibliography 171 |
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"[A White Lie] should urge academics to consider whose voices they include and how they include them when writing about and theorising Palestine. It demonstrates the power of centring female voices and detailed histories to understand intersections between temporality, place, and gender and the material, social, and political realities of Palestinian life." Olivia Mason, Gender, Place & Culture [Full review at https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2021.1971899] -- 20210830
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