Against erasure : a photographic memory of Palestine before the Nakba / Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro ; translated from the Spanish edition by Róisín Davis with Hugo Rayón Aranguren ; foreword by Mohammed El-Kurd.
Publisher:
Haymarket Books,
Copyright Date:
2024
Description:
xiv, 196 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 22 x 31 cm
First published by Ediciones del Oriente y el Mediterráneo, Prado Luis, II; E-28440 Guadarrama (Madrid).
Contents:
Enough for me / Fadwa Tuqan -- Foreword to the 2024 edition / Mohammed El-Kurd -- Foreword to the 2016 edition / Pedro Martínez Montavez -- Palestine: the hidden question / Teresa Aranguren -- The Palestinian Nakba (1947-1949): a sociocide / Bichara Khader -- Photography as historical text for reinforcing survival / Johnny Mansour -- About the selection of photographs: exposing Palestine / Sandra Barrilaro -- The 418 Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948-1949 -- Photographs -- Photo credits -- On this earth / Mahmoud Darwish.
Summary:
"This book tells the story, in both English and Arabic, of a land full of people--people with families, hopes, dreams, and a deep connection to their home--before Israel's establishment in 1948, known to Palestinians as the Nakba, or "catastrophe." Denying Palestinian existence has been a fundamental premise of Zionism, which has sought not only to hide this existence but also to erase its memory. But existence leaves traces, and the imprint of the Palestine that was remains, even in the absence of those expelled from their lands. It appears in the ruins of a village whose name no longer appears in the maps, in the drawing of a lost landscape, in the lyrics of a song, or in the photographs from a family album." -- Provided by publisher.
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