Preservation of the Heritage
Books Reviewed: Kamal Boullata and Kathy Engel, eds. We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon. Northampton, Massachusetts: Interlink, 2007; Nadia G. Yaqub. Pens, Swords, and the Springs of Art: The Oral Poetry Dueling of Palestinian Weddings in the Galilee. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007; Lal...
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International Institute of Islamic Thought
2009
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| Sumario: | Books Reviewed: Kamal Boullata and Kathy Engel, eds. We Begin Here:
Poems for Palestine and Lebanon. Northampton, Massachusetts: Interlink,
2007; Nadia G. Yaqub. Pens, Swords, and the Springs of Art: The Oral
Poetry Dueling of Palestinian Weddings in the Galilee. Leiden and Boston:
Brill, 2007; Laleh Khalili. Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of
National Commemoration. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which hasmade headlines for decades, shows
no sign of abating, for each side is convinced that it is in the right and
demands to live upon its ancestral land. The Palestinian “problem,” which
has produced a plethora of books, goes back to Israel’s 1948war of independence
and remains unresolved. In this essay, I shall review two books that deal
directly with the Palestinian problem and their overall situation (especially of
the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon) and one on oral poetic duels among
Palestinians in Israel. This latter book provides some between-the-lines
insights about how Israeli Arabs cope with the Palestinian problem ...
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