{"id":47738,"date":"2025-08-12T13:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=47738"},"modified":"2025-08-12T13:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:42:09","slug":"becoming-pro-palestinian-testimonies-from-the-global-solidarity-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=47738","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Pro-Palestinian: Testimonies from the Global Solidarity Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Edited by Rosemary Sayigh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>This book brings together testimonials from people of different nationalities and professions who are &#8216;pro-Palestinian&#8217;, whether as scholars, film-makers, artists, musicians, activists, or NGO workers. Using what oral historians call the &#8216;focused life history&#8217;, renowned scholar, Rosemary Sayigh, invites her contributors to describe the experiences, events, motives and feelings that led them to support the Palestinian cause.<br><br>The book is the first of its kind in Palestiniography and includes voices from countries across the world. A chapter is dedicated to each country and contributors are asked to reveal how they &#8216;discovered&#8217; Palestine &#8211; given that Palestine is rarely mentioned in school textbooks or university courses &#8211; whether by travel, friendship, study, membership in a political party or book group. They are also asked to detail what specific forms their engagement has taken &#8211; ranging scholarly, creative, militant, or charitable &#8211; and what their hopes are for the international solidarity movement. Finally, each contributor reflects on if they feel a just and equitable solution can ever be achieved for Palestinians, and if they accept the label &#8216;pro-Palestinian&#8217; or would rather define their relationship to the Palestinians in some other way.<br><br>With testimonies from both high profile and grassroots activists, the book is a rich and personal selection that reflects the diversity, dynamism and global nature of the movement for Palestine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acknowledgements<br><br>Preface, Noam Chomsky<br>Foreword, Rosemary Sayigh<br><br>MIDDLE EAST<br>Hadi Borhani, Iran<br>Amira Hass, Occupied Palestinian West Bank<br>Sanem Ozturk, Turkey<br>Ilan Pappe, Israel\/UK<br><br>SOUTH ASIA<br>M.H.Ilias, India<br>Vijay Prashad, India\/Lebanon<br><br>EAST ASIA<br>Ang Swee Chai, Singapore\/UK<br>Eisuke Naramoto, Japan<br>Ryantori, Indonesia<br>Hiroyuki Suzuki, Japan<br><br>AFRICA<br>Suraya Dadoo, South Africa<br>Farid Esack, South Africa<br>Naeem Jeenah, South Africa<br>Zahid Rajan, Kenya<br><br>NORTH AMERICA<br>Penny Johnson, US\/West Bank<br>Dimitri Lascaris, Canada<br>Rafi Silver, Canada<br>Naomi Wallace, US\/UK<br><br>EUROPE<br>Lori Allen, US\/UK<br>Helga Baumgarten, Germany\/Jerusalem<br>Sophia Deeg, Germany<br>Elisabetta Donini, Italy<br>Jane Frere, Scotland<br>Chris Giannou, Greece<br>Matts Grorud, Norway<br>Roger Heacock, France\/West Bank<br>Anni Kanafani, Denmark\/Lebanon<br>Monica Maurer, Germany<br>David McDowall, UK<br>Philomena McKenna, Ireland<br>Luisa Morgantini, Italy<br>Birgitte Rahbek, Denmark<br>Leena Saraste, Finland<br>Lex Takkenberg,the Netherlands<br>Toine van Teeffelen, Netherlands\/Bethlehem<br>Klaudia Wieser, Austria<br><br>AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND<br>Stuart Rees, Australia<br>Janfrie Wakim, New Zealand<br><br>LATIN AMERICA<br>Bianca Marcossi, Brazil<br>O. Hugo Benavides, Ecuador<br>Helena de Morais Manfrinato Othman, Brazil<br>Natalia Revale, Argentine<br><br>Biographies of Contributors<br><br>Further Reading<br><br>Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rosemary Sayigh<\/strong> is a social anthropologist, researcher and author. She has been based in Beirut for several decades, and has spent a lifetime researching the impact of the Israel-Palestine conflict on Palestinian refugees. She is also the author of Too Many Enemies: The Palestinian Experience in Lebanon (Zed Books, 1994). She is the 2023 winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Palestine Book Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Product details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Published<\/strong><\/td><td>Feb 22 2024<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Format<\/strong><\/td><td>Hardback<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Edition<\/strong><\/td><td>1st<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Extent<\/strong><\/td><td>264<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>ISBN<\/strong><\/td><td>9780755692088<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Imprint<\/strong><\/td><td>I.B. Tauris<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Dimensions<\/strong><\/td><td>9 x 6 inches<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Publisher<\/strong><\/td><td>Bloomsbury Publishing<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/becoming-propalestinian-9780755692088\">https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/becoming-propalestinian-9780755692088<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sayigh.jpg?fit=852%2C1278&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49750,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=49750","url_meta":{"origin":47738,"position":0},"title":"Rashid I. 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