“The geography of Palestine is one, from the river to the sea. The settler military works in different ways to create a fragmented reality for Palestinians,” Rana Barakat writes in the preface to her book Ongoing Return: Mapping Memory and Story Telling in Palestine (University of North Carolina Press, 2026). In the fragments that Zionist settler-colonialism imposed on Palestine, return is inseparable from the continuity of the 1948 Nakba. Barakat notes that uncovering stories is essential to the Palestinian return to Palestine. The book centres on Lifta’s history and stories, notably those relating to the author’s grandmother, ’Arifa. “Walking through stories is the process – through landscapes, through time and with people, a we continue to return to Lifta and […]
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