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Light the Road of Freedom
Women’s Voices from Gaza Series
By Sahbaa Al-Barbari
Edited by Ghada Ageel and Barbara Bill
Sahbaa Al-Barbari’s story provides a unique perspective on Palestinian experiences before and after the 1948 Nakba. Born and educated in Gaza, Al-Barbari was an activist in her community. When Israel occupied the Gaza Strip in 1967, Al-Barbari and her husband Mu’in Bseiso became refugees, stripped of their residency rights and forced to live in exile for the next three decades. While in exile, moving from Lebanon to Syria, Libya, Kuwait, Egypt, and finally Tunisia, Al-Barbari held tight to her hope of one day returning to Gaza. Her life speaks volumes about the struggle experienced by millions of disenfranchised Palestinians, separated from family members and their homeland. This is the second book in the Women’s Voices from Gaza series, which honours women’s unique and underrepresented perspectives on the social, material, and political realities of Palestinian life.
Book details
Publication date: July 2021Features: 3 maps, 9 B&W photographs, introduction, chronology, notes, glossary, bibliography
Series: Women’s Voices from Gaza Series
Keywords: historiography; oral history; non-fiction; collective memories; culture; exile; traditional historical narrative; history from below; gender; generational experience; human rights; Israel; catastrophe of dispossession; Nakba; women; women’s studies
Subject(s): BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Social Sciences, Activism & Social Movements, History, Oral History, Gender & Sexuality, Women’s Studies, Area Studies, Palestinian Studies, Area Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Middle Eastern, historiography; oral history; non-fiction; collective memories; culture; exile; traditional historical narrative; history from below; gender; generational experience; human rights; Israel; catastrophe of dispossession; Nakba; women; women’s studies, Oral History / Palestine / Women’s Studies, Biography, Gender studies: women & girls, Memoirs, Gaza, Palestine, Oral history, Women's Studies, Black Authors and Authors of Colour
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press
Book details
Publication date: July 2021Features: 3 maps, 9 B&W photographs, introduction, chronology, notes, glossary, bibliography
Series: Women’s Voices from Gaza Series
Keywords: historiography; oral history; non-fiction; collective memories; culture; exile; traditional historical narrative; history from below; gender; generational experience; human rights; Israel; catastrophe of dispossession; Nakba; women; women’s studies
Subject(s): BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Social Sciences, Activism & Social Movements, History, Oral History, Gender & Sexuality, Women’s Studies, Area Studies, Palestinian Studies, Area Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Middle Eastern, historiography; oral history; non-fiction; collective memories; culture; exile; traditional historical narrative; history from below; gender; generational experience; human rights; Israel; catastrophe of dispossession; Nakba; women; women’s studies, Oral History / Palestine / Women’s Studies, Biography, Gender studies: women & girls, Memoirs, Gaza, Palestine, Oral history, Women's Studies, Black Authors and Authors of Colour
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press
"What an extraordinary project! We don't hear enough from Gaza. Through the oral histories of Palestinian women who have lived, witnessed, and built lives and futures for their families and communities—in the face of devastating force and continuing injustices—we learn Palestinian History through the intimate daily ways individuals have lived and made it."
"Gaza City is one of the most ancient cultural centres on the Mediterranean, and its people have long been a backbone of the Palestinian national movement. How Gazan women describe their lives under continual siege and military attack reveals their capacity for bearing hardship and undertaking initiatives in the public sphere. Ghada Ageel, a Gazan, and Barbara Bill have ably used oral history to bring readers the lived reality of women of different backgrounds, ages, and occupations."
Foreword xv
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction xv
Light the Road of Freedom
1 / Growing up in Gaza 3
2 / The 1948 Nakba and Studies in Cairo 21
3 / Arrest and Imprisonment 43
4 / Marriage and Exile 53
5 / Tunis 73
6 / Return 87
7 / The High Price of Freedom 93
Chronology of Events in Palestine 105
Notes 125
Glossary 151
Bibliography 153
"What an extraordinary project! We don't hear enough from Gaza. Through the oral histories of Palestinian women who have lived, witnessed, and built lives and futures for their families and communities—in the face of devastating force and continuing injustices—we learn Palestinian History through the intimate daily ways individuals have lived and made it."
"Gaza City is one of the most ancient cultural centres on the Mediterranean, and its people have long been a backbone of the Palestinian national movement. How Gazan women describe their lives under continual siege and military attack reveals their capacity for bearing hardship and undertaking initiatives in the public sphere. Ghada Ageel, a Gazan, and Barbara Bill have ably used oral history to bring readers the lived reality of women of different backgrounds, ages, and occupations."
Foreword xv
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction xv
Light the Road of Freedom
1 / Growing up in Gaza 3
2 / The 1948 Nakba and Studies in Cairo 21
3 / Arrest and Imprisonment 43
4 / Marriage and Exile 53
5 / Tunis 73
6 / Return 87
7 / The High Price of Freedom 93
Chronology of Events in Palestine 105
Notes 125
Glossary 151
Bibliography 153
