In a preemptive move, avi shlaim states at the outset of his new book that his focus is on israeli politics. Nur masalha, the palestine nakba edinburgh university press. The palestine nakba explores ways of remembering and commemorating the nakba, dealing with the issue within the context of palestinian oral history, social history from below, narratives of memory, and the formation of collective identity. United nations history wikibooks, open books for an open. Nur masalha is a palestinian historian and a research associate at soas university of london.
Decolonising history, narrating the subaltern, reclaiming memory zed books 2012, 250pp. To apply for this day, this application form must be completed by noon on monday 16 march 2020. Decolonising history, narrating the subaltern, reclaiming memory 1 by nur masalha isbn. Its significance to the palestinians is of course much greater and nur masalhas new book the palestine nakba. Decolonising history, narrating the subaltern, reclaiming memory begins to redress this and should be read by everyone who wants to appreciate the nakbas multilayered character and understand the way in which the israeli state, its army and agencies like the jewish national fund worked and are continuing to work assiduously to erase any record of the palestinians from their homeland. Recent books theorizing palestinian decolonization. Decolonising history, narrating the subaltern, reclaiming memory. If most of us were asked to recommend books on palestine and the palestinians we would almost certainly list authors like avi shlaim, benny morris and ilan.
In 2009, palestinians commemorated the 60th anniversary of the n. Decolonising history, narrating the subaltern, reclaiming memory, nur masalha is published by zed books. This book is the most comprehensive and penetrating analysis available of the catastrophe that befell arab palestine and its people in 1948, known as the nakba. This book is vital for a real understanding of the israelpalestine conflict. Explores ways of remembering and commemorating the nakba. He is editor of the journal of holy land and palestine studies. The new historians are a loosely defined group of israeli historians who have challenged traditional versions of israeli history, including israels role in the palestinian exodus in 1948 and. Decolonizing history, narrating the subaltern, reclaiming memory, by nur masalha. This book is the most comprehensive and penetrating analysis available of the catastophe that befell arab palestine and its people in 1948, known as the nakba. It shows how the expulsion and physical obliteration of the material traces of a people was followed by what masalha calls memoricide. Decolonising history, narrating the subaltern, reclaiming memory london and new york. I t is a fact that the word nakba remains largely unknown to much of the world. His books include expulsion of the palestinians, a land without a people, the politics of denial, the bible and zionism, and the palestine nakba, the latter two from zed books. Faculty of history, george street, oxford, ox1 2rl.