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Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration

Marcus Breen
- 01 Jan 2009 - 
- Vol. 2, Iss: 2, pp 322-325
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This article is published in Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication.The article was published on 2009-01-01. It has received 82 citations till now.

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Al-Mayadeen: The Construction of an Enemy Image

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how threat narratives and enemy images were constructed at the pan-Arab news TV station, al-Mayadeen, during the station's first year on air, and argued that the construction of an enemy image takes places as a fine interplay between threat narratives of existing political and ideological positions on the one hand, and current affairs on the other.
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Articulation, national unity and the aesthetics of living against occupation in Elia Suleiman’s Palestine Trilogy

TL;DR: In this article, the authors read Elia Suleiman's Palestine trilogy against a wider history of Palestinian political articulation, and argued that the importance of this post-nationalism cannot be understood unless it is tied to the specific historical and discursive conjuncture in which the Palestinians exist today.
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'We are more than statistics and scattered body parts': Telling stories and coalescing Palestinian history

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a decentred, complex and kaleidoscopic version of Palestinian self-understanding and identity, highlighting marginalized voices, by engaging in collecting memories and by critically assessing the process of collective memorialization.

Unruly Boys and Obedient Girls: Gender and Education in UNRWA Schools in the West Bank

Nina Gren
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the gendered engagement in school in the West Bank refugee camps and found that girls were often more engaged in their schooling and achieved better than boys.
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Organizing Rebellion: Rethinking High-Risk Mobilization and Social Networks in War

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the emergence and evolution of female-dominated clandestine supply, financial, and information networks in 1980s Lebanon, and demonstrate that mobilization pathways and organizational subdivisions emerge from the systematic overlap between formal militant hierarchies and quotidian social networks.
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Amplifying Silence: Uncertainty and Control Parables in Contemporary China

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors pointed out that well-known tools of state coercion, such as administrative punishment, imprisonment, and violence, affect far fewer than 1% of Chinese journalists and lawyers.
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The attractions of accountancy Living an ordinary life during the second Palestinian intifada

Tobias Kelly
- 01 Sep 2008 - 
TL;DR: The authors argue that for West Bank Palestinians, a sense of the ordinary is rooted in the obligations of kinship, and moves constantly between the 'is' and the 'ought', the mundane and the frightening, and the active and the passive.