Book - 11 Lives
TheĀ 11 livesĀ given voice here are unique, each an expression of the myriad displacements that war and occupation have forced upon Palestinians since the Nakba of 1948. At the same time, they form a collective testament of a people driven from their homes and land by colonial occupation. Each story is singular; and each tells the story of all Palestinians.
As Edward Said argued in 1984, the object of Israelās colonial warfare is not only materialāseeking to minimise Palestinian existence as suchābut is also a narrative project that aims to obliterate Palestinian history āas possessed of a coherent narrative direction pointed towards self-determination.ā
In these pages, Palestinian refugees narrate their own histories. The product of a creative-writing workshop organized by the Institute for Palestine Studies in Lebanon, 11 Lives tells of childrenās adventures in the alleyways of refugee camps, of teenage martyrs and ghosts next-door, of an UNRWA teacherās dismay at the shallowness of her colleagues, and of the love, labour, and land that form the threads of a red keffiyeh.
What unites these 11 stories is āthe inadmissible existence of the Palestinian peopleā highlighted by Said. Their words persist, as one contributor writes, ābetween the Nakba and the Naksa, throughout defeats and massacres, love affairs and revolutions.ā The stories of Palestinians in exile are also open-ended, and will continue to reverberate across borders until Palestine is free.
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TheĀ 11 livesĀ given voice here are unique, each an expression of the myriad displacements that war and occupation have forced upon Palestinians since the Nakba of 1948. At the same time, they form a collective testament of a people driven from their homes and land by colonial occupation. Each story is singular; and each tells the story of all Palestinians.
As Edward Said argued in 1984, the object of Israelās colonial warfare is not only materialāseeking to minimise Palestinian existence as suchābut is also a narrative project that aims to obliterate Palestinian history āas possessed of a coherent narrative direction pointed towards self-determination.ā
In these pages, Palestinian refugees narrate their own histories. The product of a creative-writing workshop organized by the Institute for Palestine Studies in Lebanon, 11 Lives tells of childrenās adventures in the alleyways of refugee camps, of teenage martyrs and ghosts next-door, of an UNRWA teacherās dismay at the shallowness of her colleagues, and of the love, labour, and land that form the threads of a red keffiyeh.
What unites these 11 stories is āthe inadmissible existence of the Palestinian peopleā highlighted by Said. Their words persist, as one contributor writes, ābetween the Nakba and the Naksa, throughout defeats and massacres, love affairs and revolutions.ā The stories of Palestinians in exile are also open-ended, and will continue to reverberate across borders until Palestine is free.
Co-published with the Institute for Palestine Studies
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TheĀ 11 livesĀ given voice here are unique, each an expression of the myriad displacements that war and occupation have forced upon Palestinians since the Nakba of 1948. At the same time, they form a collective testament of a people driven from their homes and land by colonial occupation. Each story is singular; and each tells the story of all Palestinians.
As Edward Said argued in 1984, the object of Israelās colonial warfare is not only materialāseeking to minimise Palestinian existence as suchābut is also a narrative project that aims to obliterate Palestinian history āas possessed of a coherent narrative direction pointed towards self-determination.ā
In these pages, Palestinian refugees narrate their own histories. The product of a creative-writing workshop organized by the Institute for Palestine Studies in Lebanon, 11 Lives tells of childrenās adventures in the alleyways of refugee camps, of teenage martyrs and ghosts next-door, of an UNRWA teacherās dismay at the shallowness of her colleagues, and of the love, labour, and land that form the threads of a red keffiyeh.
What unites these 11 stories is āthe inadmissible existence of the Palestinian peopleā highlighted by Said. Their words persist, as one contributor writes, ābetween the Nakba and the Naksa, throughout defeats and massacres, love affairs and revolutions.ā The stories of Palestinians in exile are also open-ended, and will continue to reverberate across borders until Palestine is free.
Co-published with the Institute for Palestine Studies


















