1948: Cultural Scars

Question 1

Who Coined the term “nakba” and when?

Answer 1

Zurayk 1950

Question 2

Who’s story presents Palestine as a raped virgin bride?

Answer 2

Muzaffar al-Nawaab’s Night Strings

Question 3

What is the term nakba usually applied to?

Answer 3

Sudden disasters that befall man/collective, leaving them helpless and incapable of resistance

Question 4

When did a heritage movement develop?

Answer 4

1970s

Question 5

What has Sayigh said about nationalists of the 1970s’ nationalism?

Answer 5

National History stood over and excluded local, gendered an personal - until 1980s

Question 6

Who other than kanafani published works in 1960s, partially explaining defeat from social class analysis?

Answer 6

Naji Allush

Question 7

What does lentin argue?

Answer 7

That the story of 1948 is still full of silences regarding the experiences of different Palestinians

Question 8

What does tamari argue about memories of Jaffa?

Answer 8

Romantic re-imagining of pre-48 Palestine is not necessarily bourgeois but one of escapism

Question 9

Who is an example of a critical PCOI?

Answer 9

Mazzawi

Question 10

who coined “jaffamania”?

Answer 10

Budairi

Question 11

Who’s study focuses on refugees in Lebanon?

Answer 11

Allen

Question 12

Whose study focuses on the language used by women?

Answer 12

Kassem

Question 13

What does Said criticise Benvenisti for?

Answer 13

Focusing on reasons people left - irrelevant - what it is important is that they weren’t let back

Question 14

Who criticises the use of the term “nakba”?

Answer 14

Hassan Khader - connotations of sudden unavoidable catastrophe - disempowering

Question 15

What does tamari argue about memories of Palestine ?

Answer 15

Overriding sense of localism

Question 16

Who stresses the gender related impact of Deir Yasin?

Answer 16

Hasso

Question 17

Which poet has seen homeland as new exile?

Answer 17

Zaqtan

Question 18

Who has criticised the Palestinians’ narcissism and self-pity?

Answer 18

Hasan Khader

Question 19

What story highlights the dissatisfaction with return?

Answer 19

Habiby’s “the secret life of saeed: the pessoptimist”

Question 20

Who argues that memories are sharper among PCOI?

Answer 20

El Nimr

Question 21

Who sees nakba memories as a challenge to the morality of the Zionist project?

Answer 21

Sa’di

Question 22

In which text by Kanafani is the world’s apathy a prominent theme?

Answer 22

Men in the Sun

Question 23

Why does hammami thing the nakba remains such a prominent topic?

Answer 23

Ongoing power as a foundational event in the creation and ongoing reproduction of the Palestinian national consciousness and identity

Question 24

When does memory become the only means of redemption?

Answer 24

When homeland and nation state no longer overlap, with no armed resistance

Question 25

Who argues that the nakba was the key site of Palestinian collective memory and national identity?

Answer 25

Doumani, khalidi, sa’di