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Narrating The Nation Of Palestine: Interview with Nahla Abdo
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Nahla Abdo:
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Nahla Abdo
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Introduction: Nahla Abdo is an Arab feminist and a professor of sociology at Carleton University.
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Abdo: Intellectuals, writers, poets, scholars and academics are part of the recording of the culture, history and existence of communities, nationalities and groups of people.
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Abdo: Your question has two different levels.
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Abdo: It would have happened regardless.
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Abdo: The Palestine economy has been devastated.Institutions have been destroyed and the infrastructure has been largely ruined.All the ministries have been destroyed.
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Abdo: The women in groups like Women in Black and Bat Shalom (the Daughter of Peace) in Israel and abroad are brave souls.
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Abdo: Right now, the negotiable solution appears to be two sovereign states living next to each other.
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Narrating The Nation Of Palestine: Interview with Nahla Abdo
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Nahla Abdo:
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Nahla Abdo
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Introduction: Nahla Abdo is an Arab feminist and a professor of sociology at Carleton University.Her work on women and the state in the Middle East, with special focus on Palestinian women, includes her recent book, Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation (co-edited with Ronit Lentin,Berghahn Books,2002), and Sexuality, Citizenship and the Nation State: Experiences of Palestinian Women.(Syracuse University Press, forthcoming).She helped establish the Women 's Studies Institute at Birzeit University and is the founder of the Gender Research Unit at the Women's Empowerment Project/Gaza Community Mental Health Program.
Herizons: As a scholar and a writer, what do you see as the role of intellectuals and writers in the making of Palestine?
Abdo: Intellectuals, writers, poets, scholars and academics are part of the recording of the culture, history and existence of communities, nationalities and groups of people.
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Abdo: Your question has two different levels.
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Abdo: It would have happened regardless.
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Abdo: The Palestine economy has been devastated.Institutions have been destroyed and the infrastructure has been largely ruined.All the ministries have been destroyed.
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Abdo: The women in groups like Women in Black and Bat Shalom (the Daughter of Peace) in Israel and abroad are brave souls.
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Abdo: Right now, the negotiable solution appears to be two sovereign states living next to each other.