“Behind Lock and Key”: Arab Women Writers Unlocking the History of the Nakba (The Palestinian 1948 Catastrophe)

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Notes

¹ Originally written in English, published in the United States as The Scar of David in 2006, the novel was translated into twenty-seven languages, including Arabic.

² Examples of these writers are Mahmoud Darwish, SameehAlQasem, Mourid Barghouti, Elias Khouri, and Edward Said.

³ Pioneering this approach is the work of Rosemary Sayigh, Dina Matar, Lila Abu-Lughod, Isabelle Humphries, Nur Masalha, and Fatma Kassem.

⁴ “The personal is political” is a feminist slogan that has been ascribed to specific individual authors; however, Kerry Burch asserts the phrase’s collective authorship and the fact that it has been reiterated by millions of women in public and private conversations (139).

⁵ Aeeda is cooked sugar used as a depilatory.