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*** 25% OFF *** Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile by Diana Allen (Stanford University Press) has been shortlisted for the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) Palestinian Book Award 2014. We would like to offer list members a 25% discount on this title - please see details below. Refugees of the Revolution Experiences of Palestinian Exile Diana Allen Shortlisted for the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) Palestinian Book Award 2014 This beautifully written ethnography provides a powerful account of the Palestinian refugee experience in Lebanon. Basing her analysis in the complexities of refugee lives, rather than on received frameworks, Diana Allan has produced a work whose ethnographic richness is matched by its theoretical acumen. Refugees of the Revolution should be read by anyone interested in structural poverty or long-term displacement.-Ilana Feldman, George Washington University With intelligence and compassion, Diana Allan has captured the experience of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon today. An outstanding book, and an important reminder that there can be no just settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that overlooks the rights of refugees.-Eugene Rogan, author of The Arabs: A History Refugees of the Revolution is an evocative and provocative examination of everyday life in Shatila, a refugee camp in Beirut. Challenging common assumptions about Palestinian identity and nationalist politics, Diana Allan provides an immersive account of camp experience, of communal and economic life as well as inner lives, tracking how residents relate across generations, cope with poverty and marginalization, and plan--pragmatically and speculatively-for the future. She gives unprecedented attention to credit associations, debt relations, electricity bartering, emigration networks, and NGO provisions, arguing that a distinct Palestinian identity is being forged in the crucible of local pressures. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2013 328pp 9780804774925 PB £15.99 now only £11.99 when you quote CS0814REFU when you order
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:55:56 +0000

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