Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the claims of memory / Lila Abu-Lughod and Ahmad H. Sadi
  • Places of memory. The rape of Qula, a destroyed Palestinian village / Susan Slyomovics
  • Mapping the past, recreating the homeland : memories of village places in pre-1948 Palestine / Rochelle Davis
  • Return to half-ruins: memory, postmemory, and living history in Palestine / Lila Abu-Lughod
  • Modes of memory. Iterability, cumulativity and presence : the relational figures of Palestinian memory / Lena Jayyusi
  • Women's nakba stories : between being and knowing / Rosemary Sayigh
  • The continuity of trauma and struggle : recent cinematic representations of the nakba / Haim Bresheeth
  • Faultlines of memory : The secret visitations of memory / Omar Al-Qattan
  • Gender of nakba memory / Isabelle Humphries and Laleh Khalili
  • Memories of conquest : witnessing death in Tantura / Samera Esmeir
  • The politics of witness : remembering and forgetting 1948 in Shatila camp / Diana Keown Allan
  • Afterword : reflections on representations, history, and moral accountability / Ahmad Sadi.