Revolutionary Palestine

Daftar bacaan ini memberikan arah untuk memahami proyek penjajahan dan perampasan Palestina. Daftar ini tidak hanya memberikan wawasan kesejarahan, tetapi juga pemahaman atas narasi kolonial yang dipakai untuk menyokongnya. Yang terpenting, daftar ini menitikberatkan perlawananan yang dibangun oleh warga Palestina sendiri.

Daftar bacaan atau silabus ini dikurasi oleh Nikhita Mendis (Mahasiswa doktoral Antropologi dan Studi Islam Universitas Chicago) dan Casey Mathur (Mahasiswa S1 Universitas Chicago)

Core Readings:

Week 1: Decentering 1948

Rosemary Sayegh, Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries (first half)

Week 2: Putting Leftist Politics in Perspective

First watch this youtube video:

Musa Budeiri: Palestine Communist Party 1919-1948: Arab and Jew in the Struggle for Internationalism (introduction, chapters 1, 3-4, 6)
Fayez Sayegh, Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (1965) (parts II and III)

Optional:

Zachary Lockman: Comrades and Enemies (chapters 5 and 6)
Joel Beinin: Was the Red Flag Flying There?
Gershon Shafir: Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Week 3: 1936-39 The Peasant Uprising

Ghassan Kanafani, The Revolution of 1936-39 (entire)
Kanafani Interview:

Optional:

Charles Anderson (2021), When Palestinians Became Human Shields: Counterinsurgency, Racialization, and the Great Revolt (1936–1939)

Week 4: The “Israeli Left”

Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (2023), Colonizing Palestine (introduction- chapter 4)

Week 5: Nakba I

Adel Manna, Nakba and Survival: The Story of Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948-1956 (Chapters 1-3)
Film: Aljazeera Documentary: “Al-Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe”

Optional:

Walid Khalidi, From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem Until 1948 (pick some primary sources from part IV)

Week 7: Nakba II

Constantin Zurayk, The Meaning of Disaster (Ma’na al-Nakba)
Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept? (this pdf- while the page number may be intimidating most of this piece is footnotes)
Video: Rana Barakat- Ongoing Return

Week 8: Film Week

Film: Elia Suleiman, The Time That Remains
Film: Abu Ali: They Do Not Exist

Week 9: Post-Nakba 48

Adel Manna, Nakba and Survival: The Story of Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948-1956 (Chapters 4-7)

Week 9: Post-Nakba 48

Rosemary Sayegh, Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries (second half)

Week 10: Post Nakba 48: Syria and Egypt

Anoar Abdel-Malek: Egypt, Military Society, Part One (on the Nakba and Egyptian society following 1948 war)
Anaheed Al-Hardan, Palestinians in Syria, Chapter 1

Week 11: The Nakba in Israeli Memory

Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (2023), Colonizing Palestine (Chapters 5, 6)

Week 12: From Pan-Arabism to Palestinian Nationalism I

Rise of PLO: *Aljazeera Documentary, “PLO, History of a Revolution”, Masters of their Own Destiny
PFLP: Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine
Chamberlain, Paul: The Global Offensive, introduction, chapters 1 and 4
Yezid Sayigh, “Turning Defeat into Opportunity: The Palestinian Guerrillas after the June 1967 War,” Middle East Journal 46, no. 2 (1992), 244-265

Week 13: From Pan-Arabism to Palestinian Nationalism II (syllabus needs work)

Samir Franjieh, “How Revolutionary Is the Palestinian Resistance? A Marxist Interpretation,” Journal of Palestine Studies 1, no. 2 (1972): 52-60.
Yezid Sayigh. Armed Struggle and the Search for a State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993
Walid Kazziha, Revolutionary Transformation in the Arab World: George Habash and his Comrades from Nationalism to Marxism
Habash interview

Optional:

Timothy Mitchell: Carbon Democracy, chapter 6

Week : Lebanon; Sabra & Shatila – HD (TBD)

Week: Film – Lebanon

Week : Lebanon; Israeli Occupation of Lebanon – Nashwa (TBD)

Week : Film – Lebanon

Week : First Intifada and Oslo (TBD)

Week : Second Intifada

Talal Asad, On Suicide Bombing (entire)
Adam Hanieh, Class, Economy, and the Second Intifada
Ramzy Baroud, The Second Palestinian Intifada (selections)
Film: Jenin, Jenin

Week : The Aftermath- Countinsurgency

Khalili, Laleh (2013) Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgency, Stanford University Press (introduction, ch 2, 4, 6)
Nadera Shalhoub-Kerkovian, Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear
Lisa Stampnitzky: Disciplining Terror
Film: The Gatekeepers (shabak interviews)

Week : Political Economy of the West Bank

Rabie, Kareem: Palestine is Throwing a Party (entire)

Week : Gaza and Hamas

Darryl Li: The Gaza Strip as Laboratory
Roy, Sara: The Gaza Strip: Political Economy of De-Development, part IV
Lisa Hajjar, Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza

Optional:

The Palestine Laboratory (selections)
Dunning, Tristan (2016) Hamas, Jihad and Popular Legitimacy: Reinterpreting Resistance in Palestine, Routledge

Week : Palestine’s Great Flood

Abufarha, Nasser (2009) The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance, Duke University Press (chapters)
Darryl Li, Will the Real Jihadi Please Stand Up? On ‘Jihadism’ as a Conceptual Weapon
Talal Asad, (2010) Thinking about terrorism and just war
Eqbal Ahmad’s “Terrorism: theirs and ours” as good example of classic (and limited) left critique *Darryl’s note
Roy, Sara: Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector
Max Ajl, ‘Palestine’s Great Flood pts I and II’

Unlisted:

Resistance outside historic Palestine 69- (PLO, party politics, Lebanon, Jordan)

Armed struggle / ‘national movement’: PLO, PFLP, etc

Rami Siklawi, “The Palestinian Resistance Movement in Lebanon 1967–82: Survival, Challenges, and Opportunities”.
Cheryl Rubenberg. “The Civilian Infrastructure of the Palestine Liberation Organisation”
Habash interview on the Palestinian National Movement
Sayigh, Rosemary (2005)“A House is Not a Home: Permanent Impermanence of Habitat for Palestinian Expellees in Lebanon” Journal of Holy Land Studies vol 4 (1) May 2005.
Khalili. Laleh (2005). “Grassroots Commemorations: Remembering the Land in the Camps of Lebanon” Journal of Palestine Studies. Vol XXXIV (1)
Jillian Schwedler, Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent
Samir Franjieh, “How Revolutionary Is the Palestinian Resistance? A Marxist Interpretation,” Journal of Palestine Studies 1, no. 2 (1972): 52-60.
Fadi Bardawil, “Theorising Revolution, Apprehending Civil War: Leftist Political Practice and Analysis in Lebanon (1969-79),” LSE Middle East Centre Paper Series 16 (2016): 4-13.

Pre-Nakba

Beshara Doumani (1985), Rediscovering Palestine
Nora Barakat (2023), Bedouin Bureaucrats (somewhat technical but good explanation of ottoman land tenure frameworks)
Sherene Seikaly (2016), Men of Capital
Walid Khalidi, From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem Until 1948
Tibawi, Arab-Anglo Relations and the Question of Palestine, 1914-1921

Nakba 48

Adel Manna, The Palestinian Nabka and its Continuous Repercussions (2013)
Adel Manna, Nakba and Survival: The Story of Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948-1956
Constantin Zurayk, The Meaning of Disaster (Ma’na al-Nakba) in I’m
Anaheed Al-Hardan, Palestinians in Syria, Chapter 1
Rana Barakat, Ongoing Nakba
Film: Aljazeera Documentary: “Al-Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe”, Episode 4.

Nakba to 67 ‘Naksa’

Yezid Sayigh. Armed Struggle and the Search for a State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993
Walid Kazziha, Revolutionary Transformation in the Arab World: George Habash and his Comrades from Nationalism to Marxism
Rise of PLO: *Aljazeera Documentary, “PLO, History of a Revolution”, Masters of their Own Destiny

Resistance outside historic Palestine 69- (PLO, party politics, Lebanon, Jordan)

Armed struggle / ‘national movement’: PLO, PFLP, etc

Rami Siklawi, “The Palestinian Resistance Movement in Lebanon 1967–82: Survival, Challenges, and Opportunities”.
Cheryl Rubenberg. “The Civilian Infrastructure of the Palestine Liberation Organisation”
Habash interview on the Palestinian National Movement
Sayigh, Rosemary (2005)“A House is Not a Home: Permanent Impermanence of Habitat for Palestinian Expellees in Lebanon” Journal of Holy Land Studies vol 4 (1) May 2005.
Khalili. Laleh (2005). “Grassroots Commemorations: Remembering the Land in the Camps of Lebanon” Journal of Palestine Studies. Vol XXXIV (1)
Jillian Schwedler, Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent
Samir Franjieh, “How Revolutionary Is the Palestinian Resistance? A Marxist Interpretation,” Journal of Palestine Studies 1, no. 2 (1972): 52-60.
Fadi Bardawil, “Theorising Revolution, Apprehending Civil War: leftist Political Practice and Analysis in Lebanon (1969-79),” LSE Middle East Centre Paper Series 16 (2016): 4-13.

Sabra & Shatila

Bayan al-Hout, Sabra and Shatila: September 1982.
Films: Mai Masri’s Children of Shatila
Ryuchi Hirokawa’s Beirut 1982: from PLO’s Withdrawal to Sabra and Shatila
Mohammed Malas, The Dream

Israeli Occupation of Lebanon

First Intifada

Linda Tabar, Lessons from the First Intifada
Films: Pflp, japanese films, gaza.

Oslo

Edward Said, Writings About Oslo debate

Palestinian Revolutionary Writings

Walid Daqqah, Parallel Time and Searing Consciousness on 48ers

Naming Israels Psycological War on the Palestinians Walid Daqqas Searing Consciousness or On Redefining Torture
Abdul Rahim al Shaikh, The Parallel Human

Basel al Araj short texts:

Terror and Counterinsurgency

Darryl Li, Anti-Palestinianism at the Core: The Origins and Growing Danger of US Antiterrorism Law
Film: **Halvorsen, Line (2007) USA vs Al-Arian
Jodi Dean, Who Can Be Defended
Biography options: Leila Khaled, Assata Shakur, Safiya Bukhari

Israeli terrorism discourse:

Nadera Shalhoub-Kerkovian, Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear
Lisa Hajjar, Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza
Nadia Abu El Haj, Facts on the Ground

US terrorism discourse:

**Stampnitzky, Lisa (2013) Disciplining Terror: How Experts Invented “Terrorism,” Cambridge University Press

Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism

Bouteldja, Houria (2016) Whites, Jews and Us: Toward a politics of revolutionary love, Semiotext(e)

Palestine and Kashmir:

Hafsa Kanjwal, Colonizing Kashmir (2023), especially chapter 2
Azad Essa, Hostile Homelands (2023)

Films:

Assia Boundaoui, The Feeling of Being Watched
**Halvorsen, Line (2007) USA vs Al-Arian
**Ghadiali, Ashish (2016) The Confession
Rory Kennedy, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
**Perelli, Luigi (1960) Al Fatah: Palestine
**Lowkey (2010) Terrorist? YouTube
**Olsson, Göran H (2010) Concerning Violence, Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense, narrated by Ms Lauryn Hill, Dogwoof

China film suggestions:

Resistance, Why?
Abu Ali’s They Do Not Exist
The Dream
Mai Masri’s films
A World Not Ours

Podcasts:

Islam without Compromise with Moazzam Begg

Other possibilities:

**Qureshi, Asim (2009) Rules of the Game: Detention Deportation, Disappearance, Hurst
**Shafi, Azfar (2021) The 9/11 complex The political economy of counter-terrorism, Transnational Institute
**Faure-Walker, Rob (2021) The Emergence of ‘Extremism’: Exposing the Violent Discourse and Language of ‘Radicalisation’, Bloomsbury
**Sageman, Marc (2017) Turning to Political Violence: The Emergence of Terrorism, University of Pennsylvania Press
Ali, Nadya and Witham, Ben (2018) The unbearable anxiety of being: Ideological fantasies of British Muslims beyond the politics of security, Security Dialogue, 1–18
Browne, Simone (2015) Dark Matters: On the surveillance of Blackness, Duke University Press
Daulatzai, Sohail and Rana, Junaid (2018) With Stones in Our Hands: Writings on Muslims, Racism, and Empire, University of Minnesota Press
Ghumkhor, Sahar (2020) The Political Psychology of the Veil, Palgrave Macmillan
**Neu, Michael (2017) Just Liberal Violence: Sweatshops, Torture, War, Rowman & Littlefield
**McQuade, Joseph (2020) A Genealogy of Terrorism: Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea, Cambridge University Press
**Mayer, Jane (2008) The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, Doubleday
‘The Body and Revolution in the Middle East’ (ch 3 of Routledge Handbook on Women in the Middle East, 2022) by Sherene Seikaly, Sara Scalenghe
Orisanmi Burton, (2024), Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt (important on US counterinsurgency)

‘Arab World’:

Adam Hanieh (2013), Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East
(2018), Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East
Al-Arian, Abdullah (2014) Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat’s Egypt, Oxford University Press
**Dunning, Tristan (2016) Hamas, Jihad and Popular Legitimacy: Reinterpreting Resistance in Palestine, Routledge
**Gerges, Fawaz (2005) The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global, Cambridge University Press
*Ahdash, Fatima (2018) The interaction between family law and counter-terrorism: a critical examination of the radicalisation cases in the family courts’, Child and Family Law Quarterly, 2018. 389 – 414

‘Moderate Islam’ / Deradicalization Primary Sources: