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Download Bibliography B IBLIOGRAPHY Note: Most of our sessions contain original content and source material from “H ow do you say Nakba in Hebrew? ,” Zochrot’s 2011 curriculum. Session 1 Materials “ Traveling on Ruins, ” Israel Social TV, 15 December 2013. Materials in Preparation for Session 2 Haddad, Saleem, “T he Dispossessed ,” Slate Magazine, 14 May 2015. Shehadeh, Raja, S trangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine. P enguin Books, 2003. Session 2 Materials Khalidi, Walid. “’Ayn Ghazal,” from A ll That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, I nstitute for Palestine Studies, 2006. “Letter from the Israeli Commander in Chief to the Foreign Minister, proposing a response to the UN complaint on the matter of Jaba’, Ayn Ghazal and Ijzim,” 17 September 1948. Israeli State Archives. T ranslated by Elliot Leffler. “Letter of complaint from the Foreign Minister of Jordan sent to UN headquarters in Israel,” 31 July 1948. Israeli State Archives. “Letter to Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs from the United Nations Mediator on Palestine,” 9 September 1948. Israeli State Archives. Milhemet Hakomemiut [The War of Independence] , IDF Publishers, General Staff History Branch, 1959. Morris, Benny. T he Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge Middle East Studies, 2004. “Name of Case: Villages of Ein Ghazal, Ijzim and Jaba,” report written by the Central Truce Supervision Board and approved by the UN Mediator on Palestine, 8 September 1948. Israeli State Archives. “Testimony of Ali Hamoudi, a refugee from Ayn Ghazal,” f rom “Remembering Ayn Ghazal” in Zochrot’s study guide, “How Do You Say Nakba In Hebrew?”, translated by Elliot Leffler. Materials in Preparation for Session 3 “ Britain in Palestine: 1917­1948, ” The Balfour Project, 4 May 2015. Hasson, Nir. “ Israel's last remaining abandoned Arab village, Lifta, gets reprieve as judge voids development plans ,” Haaretz, 7 February 2012. Heywood, Mat. “G oing back to Lifta: a Palestinian exile returns ,” The Guardian, 29 May 2011. Sherwood, Harriet. “ The ruined village Palestinians will never forget, ” The Guardian, 29 May 2011. Session 3 Materials Allon, Yigal. B ook of the Palmach. Begin, Menachem. T he Revolt, 1964. “ Discriminatory Laws in Israel ,” Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, online database. Flapan, Simha. T he Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities , Pantheon, 1988. Khalidi, Walid. “Revisiting the UNGA Partition Resolution,” Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. XXVII, No. 1, Autumn 1997. “Letter to his son, Amos,” Ben Gurion, David. 5 October 1937. Obtained from the Ben­Gurion Archives in Hebrew, and translated into English by the Institute of Palestine Studies, Beirut. Morris, Benny. T he Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge Middle East Studies, 2004. Nationality Law, 5712­1952, State of Israel. “ Palestine 1896, ” Lumiere Brothers, 1896. Plan Dalet (Plan D), 1 0 March 1948. Translated from Sefer Toldot Hahaganah [History of the Haganah], vol. 3, ed. by Yehuda Slutsky, Tel Aviv, Zionist Library, 1972. “Retroactive Transfer, A Scheme for the Solution of the Arab Question in the State of Israel,” memorandum by Yosef Weitz to Ben Gurion, 5 June 1948. The Absentees’ Property Law, 5710­1950, S tate of Israel. 2 The Land Acquisition (Validation of Acts and Compensation) Law, 5713­1953, State of Israel. The Law of Return, 5710­ 1950, S tate of Israel. Materials in Preparation for Session 4 “ Testimonies” Archive, Zochrot. Session 4 Materials “ Binyamin (Roski) Eshet, ” Towards a Common Archive, 28 October 2012. “ Women’s Testimonies of the Nakba, ” Zochrot, 9 March 2011. Materials in Preparation for Session 5 Gill, Natasha. “The Original “No”: Why the Arabs Rejected Zionism, and Why it Matters,” Middle East Policy Council, 19 June 2013. Said, Edward. “Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims,” from T he Edward Said Reader , Vintage, 1979. Session 5 Materials Ali, Taha Muhammad. “There Was No Farewell,” from So What: New & Selected Poems, 1971–2005 . Translated from the Arabic by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin. Darwish, Mahmoud. “I Belong There,” 1986, from U nfortunately, It Was Paradise , translated by Munir Akash and Carolyn F orché. Plan Dalet (Plan D), 1 0 March 1948. Translated from Sefer Toldot Hahaganah [History of the Haganah], vol. 3, ed. by Yehuda Slutsky, Tel Aviv, Zionist Library, 1972. The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, S tate of Israel, 14 May 1948. “ Yerachmiel Kahanovich, Palmach soldier ,” Zochrot, 23 July 2012. Materials in Preparation for Session 6 General Progress Report and Supplementary Report, U nited Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine (UNCCP), 23 October 1950. 3 Lausanne Protocol, U NCCP, 12 May 1949. “Letter to Ben Gurion,” Harry S. Truman, 28 May 1949. Session 6 Materials Abu Amer, Adnan. “Palestinians in Jordan outraged over new work permit requirements,” Al­Monitor, 2 February 2016. Abu Moghli, Mai, and Nael Bitarie. “ The Palestinians Fleeing Syria Are Among the Most Vulnerable Refugees ,” The Nation, 4 December 2015. Closing Protection Gaps: Handbook on Protection of Palestinian Refugees, B adil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, 2nd Edition, February 2015. “In Figures, as of 1 Jan 2015,” United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA), June 2015. “Fields of Operation,” UNRWA, 2015. “ Khaled’s Digital Resistance, ” Khaled Jamal al­Jafari, 28 July 2007. “ Kholoud’s Digital Resistance, ” Kholoud al­Ajarma, 28 July 2007. “#NakbaSurvivor,” nakbasurvivor.com, digital archive. Q&A: What you need to know about Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, Badil, May 2011. Survey of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, B adil, Vol. VIII, 2013­2015. Session 7 Materials “ Born Here ,” DAM, 22 August 2006. “ El­Funoun ,” El­Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe, 9 January 2013. “ Imagining Return to al­Ghabisiyya destroyed village ,” Baladna and Zochrot, November 2015. “ Mali Huriye (I don’t have freedom), ” DAM, 22 August 2009. “ Nation Estate ,” Larissa Sansour, 2012. 4 “ Past Tense Continuous ,” Dima Hourani, September 2015. “ Past Tense Continuous: The Live Reenactment of the Nakba, ” Cairoscene, 2 June 2015. “ The Palestine Poster Project Archives, ” The Palestine Poster Project, April 2009. “ Udna ­ al­Ghabisiyya, ” Israel Social TV, 7 January 2016. 5 .
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