Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities

When recollecting the Nakba, Palestinian refugees in Syria recall fishing in the Jordan River, the trees on their land and the houses they once lived in. With these memories they evoke a world that was destroyed by the 1948 Catastrophe, rather than the actual death and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to make way for the creation of Israel.

“They hold on to the memories of what the Nakba deprived them of rather than the memories of the catastrophes themselves,” writes assistant professor of sociology at Beirut University, Anaheed Al-Hardan, in her latest book Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities.

This book has been shortlisted for the Palestine Book awards 2016, please click here to read the full review on the Palestine book awards site.