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Surrounded : Palestinian soldiers in the Israeli military
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ISBN: 0804769788 9780804769785 9780804758581 0804758581 Year: 2009 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,


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The right kind of suffering : gender, sexuality, and Arab asylum seekers in America
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ISBN: 9781477326404 9781477326398 1477326391 Year: 2023 Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press,

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"Even before the former administration upended the asylum process in the US, it was an exacting and drawn-out process that turned away many people. Overloaded courts, constantly changing dates and appointments, and the need to prove oneself the "right" kind of asylum seeker were harrowing enough before adding the language barrier that many faced. Rhoda Kanaaneh became a volunteer translator for Arab plaintiffs and soon began to learn the ins and outs of the system by hearing the lawyers of those who were lucky enough to have them explain how the process worked to their clients. In this book, she follows the cases of four Arabs who sought asylum on the grounds of their gender or sexuality and how they had to demonstrate "the right kind of suffering" for the courts. Suad had to make sense of her confused memories in order to present an ordered story of her forced circumcision and police harassment in Sudan. Fatima had to visit doctors and therapists to document decades of abuse at the hands of her husband, while downplaying the resultant mental illness she suffered. Fadi had to look "gay enough" to qualify for asylum even after documenting his arrest and torture in Jordan because of his homosexuality. Marwa had to downplay her environmental activism while explaining her hardship as a lesbian in a Shiite family in Lebanon. All four of these asylum seekers were ultimately successful after many years, thanks to the help of pro-bono lawyers who taught them how to navigate the system and highlight certain aspects of their lives while hiding others in order to strike the right note for the courts. Kanaaneh uses their stories to open the door to the painful process of asylum, where more fail than succeed. She also describes the unique challenges Arab asylum seekers faced in the post-9/11 United States and what their travails revealed about the country in which they wanted to find refuge"--


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Displaced at home: ethnicity and gender among Palestinians in Israel
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Year: 2010 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

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Displaced at home
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ISBN: 1438432712 1441686975 9781441686978 9781438432717 9781438432694 1438432690 9781438432700 1438432704 9781438432717 Year: 2010 Publisher: Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press

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Birthing the nation : strategies of Palestinian women in Israel
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ISBN: 1282758950 9786612758959 0520927273 1597345008 9780520927278 0585441251 9780585441252 0520223799 9780520223790 0520229444 9780520229440 9781282758957 6612758953 9781597345002 Year: 2002 Volume: 2 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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In this rich, evocative study, Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh examines the changing notions of sexuality, family, and reproduction among Palestinians living in Israel. Distinguishing itself amid the media maelstrom that has homogenized Palestinians as "terrorists," this important new work offers a complex, nuanced, and humanized depiction of a group rendered invisible despite its substantial size, now accounting for nearly twenty percent of Israel's population. Groundbreaking and thought-provoking, Birthing the Nation contextualizes the politics of reproduction within contemporary issues affecting Palestinians, and places these issues against the backdrop of a dominant Israeli society.

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