Book details

Publication date: June 2023
Features: 3 maps, 15 B&W photographs, foreword, introduction, chronology, notes, glossary, bibliography
Series: Women’s Voices from Gaza Series
Keywords: historiography; oral history; history from below; gender; generational experience; human rights; Palestine; Israel; catastrophe of dispossession; Nakba; women; women’s studies; Christianity; Islam; non-fiction; collective memories; culture; exile
Subject(s): BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Social Sciences, Social Sciences / Activism & Social Movements, History, History / Oral History, Gender & Sexuality, Gender & Sexuality / Women’s Studies, Area Studies, Area Studies / Palestinian Studies, Area Studies, Area Studies / Middle Eastern Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Middle Eastern, Middle Eastern history, Gender studies: women and girls, Women's History, Oral History / Palestine / Women’s Studies, historiography; oral history; history from below; gender; generational experience; human rights; Palestine; Israel; catastrophe of dispossession; Nakba; women; women’s studies; Christianity; Islam; non-fiction; collective memories; culture; exile
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press

Hekmat Al-Taweel. Hekmat Al-Taweel was a native Palestinian Christian from Gaza City.

Ghada Ageel. Ghada Ageel is a visiting professor of political science at the University of Alberta, a columnist for the Middle East Eye, and the editor of Apartheid in Palestine (UAlberta Press).

Barbara Bill. Barbara Bill has experience with several international humanitarian organizations including six years in Gaza. She currently resides in New South Wales, Australia.

Ilan Pappe.

“The Women's Voices From Gaza series is exceptional, offering insights into modern Gaza’s social history. It will attract a wide readership in Palestine studies and gender studies, as well as individuals interested in the Palestine question.” Rema Hammami, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Birzeit University

Preface: Introducing Women’s Voices from Gaza ix
Foreword, Ilan Pappe xv
Acknowledgements xxiii
Introduction xxv

Come My Children
1 / Childhood: Growing Up in Gaza 3
2 / The British Mandate and School Days 21
3 / Marriage and Relations with Palestinian Muslims 39
4 / Business and Life Before and After the 1948 Nakba 51
5 / Palestinian Resistance Against the British Mandate 59
6 / The Egyptian Administration and the Israeli Occupation 71
7 / Yusuf, the United States, and Palestine 85

Chronology of Events in Palestine 107
Notes 127
Glossary 145
Bibliography 149
ISBNs: 9781772126761 978-1-77212-676-1 Title: come my children ISBNs: 9781772126921 978-1-77212-692-1 Title: come my children ISBNs: 9781772126938 978-1-77212-693-8 Title: come my children