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Memories of revoltBook 2003 • Swedenburg, Ted
Palestinians • Middle East > Middle East
This is a study of popular memory of the Great Revolt of 1936-1939. Swedenburg interviews elderly fighters involved in the rebellion. He discovers that their stories are affected by Israeli repression of Palestinain memory and history. Also, there is...The Palestinian peasant as a national signifierarticle 1990 • Swedenburg, Ted
Palestinians • Middle East > Middle East
This is an account of the symbolism surrounding the Palestinian peasant (FALLAHIN), especially since their heroic involvement in the fatal 1936-1939 rebellion. The peasant has become an icon of Palestinian resistance up until the present, witness the...