Naseej : life-weavings of Palestine

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"Naseej, meaning "tapestry" in Arabic, is a book about the diversity and beauty of community, history, and continuity in Palestine. It compiles essays, short stories, poetry, interviews, and visual art to tell the story of how the vast web of Palestinian histories has been severed from its roots. Palestine has always been a precious patchwork of languages, ethnicities, cultures, religions, and practices, weaved into the fabric of an Arab and Isla...

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ISBN:

9780745350844 (pbk.)
9780745350844
0745350844

Description:

viii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

PART I: Itineraries
1. Identity Card / Najwan Darwish
2. Tales and Imaginaries from a Traveling City / Noura Salahaldeen
3. The Story of Romanies in Palestine Is a Microcosm of the Palestinian Story / Arpan Roy
4. Life in the Armenian Quarter: Dr. Gaby Kevorkian on the Genocide, Nakba, Naksa, and the Armenian Palestinians / Antranik Cassem
5. Ibn Battuta in Gaza / Intimaa Alsdudi and Hadeel Assali
PART II: Directions of Prayer
6. The Indians of Ottoman Jerusalem / Tyler Kynn
7. To and from Sufi Jerusalem / Dalal Odeh and Eman Alyan
8. An "Air Smelling Event": The Metamorphosis of Simon the Just and His Shrine / Salim Tamari
9. The Ahmadiyya of the Carmel / Amir Odeh
PART III: Topographies
10. Géographie Ethnologique du Djolan: Adib Souleiman Bagh, the Golan's Last Geographer / Aamer Ibraheem
11. Similar but Not the Same: The Heritage Question in Palestine / Khaldun Bshara
12. The Herzegovinian Muslim Colony in Caesarea, Palestine / Nina Seferović
13. On the Use and Misuse of Music: A Conversation about Jumana Manna's A Magical Substance Flows into Me / Jumana Manna and Saleem al-Bahloly
PART IV: Familiar Places
14. Umm Kulthum's Intercessor / Sheikha Hussein Helawy
15. Saber's Dungeon / Maisan Hamdan
16. The Theater of Life and Death / Radi Shehadeh
17. The Circassians of Kafr Kama: Beautiful Homeland Gives Way to Traumatic Dispersal / Hawa Batwash
18. They Tell Me This Is Jerusalem: Grammars of Belonging in Palestine / Julia Elyachar

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3387289

Other Authors:

Roy, Arpan, editor
Salahaldeen, Noura, editor

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