In 2018, Palestinians mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when over 750,000 people were uprooted and forced to flee their homes in the early days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even today, the bitterness and trauma of the Nakba remains raw, and it has become the pivotal event both in the shaping of Palestinian identity and in galvanising the resistance to occupation.Unearthing an unparalleled body of rich oral testimony, An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba tells the story of this epochal event through the voices of the Palestinians who lived it, uncovering remarkable new insights both into Palestinian experiences of the Nakba and into the wider dynamics of the ongoing conflict. Drawing together Palestinian accounts from 1948 with those of the present day, the book confronts the idea of the Nakba as an event consigned to the past, instead revealing it to be an ongoing process aimed at the erasure of Palestinian memory and history. In the process, each unique and wide-ranging contribution leads the way for new directions in Palestinian scholarship.

Much of the current scholarship is confined to specific area studies and raw data. This book offers a wide-ranging study of the Nakba, using oral history as a means of identifying new directions and perspectives for Palestinian scholarship.

Introduction - Nahla Abdo and Nur MasalhaPart I: Theorizing the Nakba and Oral History1. Decolonising Methodology, Reclaiming Memory: Palestinian Oral Histories and Memories of the Nakba - Nur Masalha2. Feminism, Indigenousness and Settler Colonialism: Oral History, Memory and the Nakba - Nahla AbdoPart II: Between Epistemology and Ontology: Nakba Embodiment3. What Bodies Remember: Sensory Experience as Historical Counterpoint in the Nakba Archive - Diana Allan4. The Time of Small Returns: Affect and Resistance During the Nakba - Lena JayyusiPart III: Archiving the Nakba through Palestinian Refugee Women's Voices5. Nakbah Silencing and the Challenge of Palestinian Oral History - Rosemary Sayigh6. Shu'fat Refugee Camp Women Authenticate an Old 'Nakba' and Frame Something 'New' while Narrating It - Laura Khoury7. Gender Representation of Oral History: Palestinian Women Narrating the Stories of their Displacement - Faiha Abdel-HadiPart IV: The Nakba and 48 Palestinians8. The Ongoing Nakba: Urban Palestinian Survival in Haifa - Himmat Zubi9. Suffourieh: A Continuous Tragedy - Amina Qablawi Nasrallah10. The Sons and Daughters of Eilaboun - Hisham Zreiq11. 'This Is Your Father's Land': Palestinian Bedouin Women Encounter the Nakba in the Naqab - Safa Abu-Rabi'aPart V: Documenting Nakba Narratives from the Gaza Strip and the Shatat12. The Young Do Not Forget - Mona Al-Farra13. Gaza Remembers: Narratives of Displacement in Gaza's Oral History - Malaka Mohammad Shwaikh14. 'Besieging the Cultural Siege': Mapping Narratives of Nakba through Orality and Repertoires of Resistance - Chandni Desai