No Place for Grief: Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine

by Lotte B Segal

Westerners 'know' Palestine through images of war and people in immediate distress. Yet this focus has as its consequence that other, less spectacular stories of daily distress are rarely told. Those seldom noticed are the women behind the men who engage in armed resistance against the military occupation: wives of the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention and the widows of the martyrs. In Palestine, being related to a detainee serving a sentence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081224821X
• ISBN13: 9780812248210
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"