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Table of Contents EDITORIAL My Grandmother and Other Stories ........................................................................3 Histories of the Palestinians as Social Biographies Beshara Doumani, Guest Editor HISTORICAL FEATURES Sheikh Hassan al-Labadi & Seven Acts of Lost Memory ....................................10 Nazmi al-Jubeh The Short Life of Private Ihsan ..............................................................................26 Jerusalem 1915 Salim Tamari From Seferberlik to the Nakba ...............................................................................59 A Personal Account of the Life of Zahra al-Ja’uniyya Adel Manna’ Sa’id Nimr’s Stormy Career ...................................................................................77 From the Dungeons of Istanbul to the Ranks of Faisal’s Arab Army Sonia Nimr Talbiyeh Days: At Villa Harun ar-Rashid ..............................................................88 George Bisharat FEATURES The Palestinian ‘Wailing Wall’ ...............................................................................99 A Palestinian in Dhahiat al-Barid Records a Life Transformed Muhammad Abu Samra JERUSALEM DIARY .............................................................................................119 Cover Photo: Ramallah Family, circa 1900. Source: Matson Collection, Library of Congress.
My Grandmother and Other Stories Histories of the Palestinians as Social Biographies Beshara Doumani, Guest Editor Bethlehem women at home drinking coffee and smoking narghileh. Source: Before Their Diaspora, p. 59 It is ironic that the intense concern about and the numerous historical studies on Palestine, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and Palestinian nationalist movements has kept the lives of ordinary Palestinians outside the purview of most scholars. These studies are expansive about the political history of the violence, territorial partition, and massive demographic displacement that are the hallmarks of modern state formation and nationalist conflicts. Precisely for that reason, however, they are largely silent when it comes to the social and cultural history of the overwhelming majority of the Palestinians. 1 Innovative and accessible narratives about a people who have become a household word, but about whom we know surprisingly little can point to new analytical horizons and political possibilities. Indeed, without stories in which ordinary Palestinians take their proper place in the historical stage, it is difficult to imagine how they can achieve political self-determination or take responsibility for their own actions. Writing Palestinians into history is critical, therefore, Jerusalem Quarterly 30 [ 3 ]
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With the economic collapse of many
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Monday 10 July, 1916. No more crops
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23 All data about Turjman’s perso
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From Seferberlik to the Nakba A Per
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its inhabitants. In Abu Jamil’s r
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In Abu Fayyad’s home, Jalilah was
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to pursue the perpetrator after he
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The olive season was a good one tha
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Whatever the answers, the fact rema
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efore our return to Majd al-Kroum.
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Endnotes 1 Not much has been writte
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the Majd al-Kroum plains. For furth
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Sa’id Nimr’s Stormy Career From
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“Still, I have to be here.” Gra
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Sa’id saw this as a great opportu
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me to treat their injured. After th
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From the stories I heard about my g
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Once they brought a young man to hi
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My father shared Edward’s deep ap
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Hanna studied in the Schneller’s
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Hanna and Mathilde Bisharat (holdin
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and his new bride to dinner. When d
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in resolving issues between Palesti
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The Palestinian ‘Wailing Wall’
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A Farewell Naila suggests parting f
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His reaction to the news of the wal
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with a different legal status. Appr
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to learn that we weren’t married.
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checkpoint on the southeast side of
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“To Hadassah Hospital,” I answe
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As a ‘spiritual’ Muslim addicte
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what had happened. Why have you cha
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eligiosity. The renaming of the sal
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