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Voices: Palestinian Women Narrate Displacement - a digital book in which you

can hear the voices of women of historic Palestine telling their stories of

loss of home through displacement, refugeedom, demolition and threat of

demolition, deportation, imprisonment, and total transformation of

environment.

 

http://almashriq.hiof.no/palestine/300/301/voices/

 

       VOICES: PALESTINIAN WOMEN NARRATE DISPLACEMENT

 

  Now accessible on Internet: the voices of women in different

  regions of historic Palestine - Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem

  and Israel/1948 Palestine - telling their stories of loss of

  home, whether through displacement, refugeedom, demolition and

  threat of demolition, deportation, imprisonment, and total

  transformation of environment. The stories of about 70 people,

  mainly women with a few men, are recorded here. They are not

  known leaders but 'ordinary' Palestinians of varying ages and

  social backgrounds - urban, rural, Bedouin; citizens and

  refugees.

 

  This is a multi-media project, a digital book in which you can

  hear the speakers' voices, see portraits of their faces and

  surroundings, and read texts that describe individual speakers

  and give historical background. The site will be expanded as new

  information and readings become available.

 

  The voices and texts were recorded and written by Rosemary

  Sayigh, anthropologist and oral historian, through a grant from

  the Diana Tamari Sabbagh Foundation. The digital book was created

  by Børre Ludvigsen, webmaster of Al-Mashriq, and Susanne Olsen,

  layout artist and computer programmer.  .

 

  Photographs were offered to the project by Leena Saraste, Sallie

  Schatz, Rania Matar, Muhammad Omer, Darren Ell, John Torday,

  Peter Fryer, and many more.

 

  The book is available at: http://almashriq.hiof.no/voices/

 

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