Malek Abisaab, Michelle Hartman

What the War Left Behind

Women's Stories of Resistance and Struggle in Lebanon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Resistance and activism in the shadow of the Lebanese Civil War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Syracuse University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9780815638377
• ISBN-10: 081563837X
• Artikelnr.: 70690932

Autorenporträt

Malek Abisaab is associate professor of history at McGill University. He is the author of Militant Women of a Fragile Nation. He coedited Women's War Stories: The Lebanese Civil War, Women's Labor, and the Creative Arts with Michelle Hartman.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction "What the War Left Behind"
* Chapter One: Wadad Halwani "War is the ugliest thing in the world"
* Chapter Two: Rima Zaazaa "I can’t just go home, shut the door on the
world, and forget"
* Chapter Three: Arab Loutfi "War is so much more than meets the eye"
* Chapter Four: Batul Ali Hashem "Political action can help women reach
their full potential"
* Chapter Five: Elissar Zein "I can’t see someone in need and do
nothing"
* Chapter Six: Umm ZiadMaliha Adnan "If people let themselves be ruled
by fear, they end up doing nothing"
* Chapter Seven: Hajjeh Zahra Abdel Latif Sh?ayb "I could never sit
still: I was always on the move"
* Chapter Eight: Sanaa Ali Ahmad "You do what you have to do"
* Reading Guide
* Selected Bibliography
* Acknowledgments
* Appendix