Series: SOAS Palestine Studies

Producing Palestine is a compelling exploration of how Palestine is defined and constructed in the global imagination, often through lenses of conflict, resistance, oppression, and violence. These representations are so laden with conflicting claims and associations that they remain inaccessible, even to Palestinians themselves. This book delves into the creative labour involved in producing Palestine, particularly within technological and media...

The Palestinian national liberation movement – or the Palestinian revolution as it is known in Arabic – emerged during the 1960s as an iconic cause of the global Left. This volume highlights the different practices of international solidarity that characterised this period, and how they shaped and were shaped by the global trajectory of the Palestinian movement. Bringing together scholars...

Since the 1993 Oslo Accords, the Occupied Palestinian Territory has been the subject of extensive international peacebuilding and statebuilding efforts coordinated by Western donor states and international finance institutions. Despite their failure to yield peace or Palestinian statehood, the role of these organisations in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is generally overlooked owing to their depiction as tertiary actors engaged in technical...

Folktales are instrumental in ensuring the survival of oral traditions and strengthening communal bonds. Both the stories and the process of storytelling itself help to define social, cultural, and political identity. For Palestinians, the threat of losing their heritage has engendered a sense of urgency among storytellers and Palestinian folklorists. Yet, there has been remarkably little academic scholarship dedicated to...