Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory

Edited by Ahmad H. Sa'di and Lila Abu-Lughod

Paper, 416 pages, 14 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13579-5
$27.50 / £16.00

April, 2007
Cloth, 416 pages, 14 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13578-8
$72.50 / £42.50

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• Read a review of Nakba fromBookforum

Related Subjects

• Anthropology
• Middle East Studies

Series

• Cultures of History

About the Author

Ahmad H. Sa'di is a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has published widely on political, social, and economic aspects of the lives of Palestinians in Israel. Lila Abu-Lughod is professor of anthropology and gender studies at Columbia University. Her books include Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society, Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories, and Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt.

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