{"id":7483,"date":"2022-02-09T17:10:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T22:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/?p=7483"},"modified":"2022-03-16T12:09:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T16:09:11","slug":"reading-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/reading-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are grateful to our colleagues at the Barnard College Library for their work compiling the reading list, <a href=\"https:\/\/barnard.edu\/digital-display-resource-list\">Palestinian Voices<\/a>. This is an incredible resource to think with Palestinian writers about Palestinian history, memory, and survival. You will find novels, poetry, non-fiction, scholarly examinations, graphic novels, visual art, and zines, with writers spanning the generations from Mahmoud Darwish, Ghassan Kanafani, and Edward Said, to Naomi Shihab Nye and Rabab Abdulhadi, to Mohammed El-Kurd, Randa Jarrar, Adania Shibli, Leila Abdelrazaq, and Zaina Arafat.<\/p>\n<p>The reading list also includes two of our colleagues. Nadia Abu El-Haj is Ann Whitney Olin Professor in the Departments of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University, and Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies and Chair of the Governing Board of the Society of Fellows\/Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, and author of\u00a0<em>Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society<\/em>\u00a0(2001), which won the Albert Hourani Annual Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association in 2002, and<em>\u00a0The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology<\/em> (2012). We are eager to engage with her latest work in a conversation with her and journalist Anjali Kamat at an event on April 15 where the two will discuss Abu El-Haj&#8217;s forthcoming book,\u00a0<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9\/11 America\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(forthcoming, 2022). Event details coming soon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thea Abu El-Haj is Professor and Program Director in the Department of Education, Barnard College. Her works include <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unsettled Belonging: Educating Palestinian American Youth <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2015) and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elusive justice: Wrestling with Difference and Dducational Equity in Everyday Practice<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2006), and, as co-author, \u201cFifi the Punishing Cat and Other Civic Lessons from a Lebanese Public Kindergarten,\u201d in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journal of Education in Emergencies<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2018), and \u201cCivic reasoning and discourse amid structural inequality, migration and conflict\u201d in a report for the National Academy entitled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Educating for Civic Reasoning and Discourse<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2021).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zaina Arafat is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Barnard College. She is the author if <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You Exist Too Much<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2020), a novel that woman a 2021 Lambda Literary Award and was named Roxane Gay\u2019s favorite book of 2020. Her work has appeared in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, VICE, BuzzFeed, Granta, Guernica, The Believer, Harper\u2019s Bazaar<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Virginia Quarterly Review.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University, Editor of the <em>Journal for Palestine Studies<\/em>, and Co-Director at the Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University. His books are many and include\u00a0<em>The Hundred Years&#8217; War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017\u00a0(2020);\u00a0Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013); Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East\u00a0(2009);The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood\u00a0(2006);\u00a0Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America&#8217;s Perilous Path in the Middle East\u00a0(2004);\u00a0Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness\u00a0(1996);\u00a0Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making During the 1982 War (1986); <\/em>and <em>British Policy Towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914 (1980).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/barnard.edu\/digital-display-resource-list\">The Palestinian Voices reading list is accessible to all.<\/a> If you&#8217;re a Barnard or Columbia student or employee, we encourage you to check out the books and visit the digital display in the Milstein Center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/barnard.edu\/digital-display-resource-list\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgix-fluid alignnone wp-image-7502 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flyer-2-.jpg\" alt=\"Palestinian writers flyer \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flyer-2-.webp 2000w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flyer-2--300x234.webp 300w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flyer-2--1024x800.webp 1024w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flyer-2--768x600.webp 768w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flyer-2--1536x1200.webp 1536w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flyer-2--999x781.webp 999w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are grateful to our colleagues at the Barnard College Library for their work compiling the reading list, Palestinian Voices. This is an incredible resource to think with Palestinian writers about Palestinian history, memory, and survival. 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