Open AccessHome Away from the Homeland: Palestinian Women and the Re-construction of Home Two Tales from Shatila
Author(s) -
Assmaa Naguib
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.153
Subject(s) - refugee , homeland , meaning (existential) , displacement (psychology) , requisition , politics , symbol (formal) , political science , displaced person , sociology , gender studies , law , history , psychology , psychoanalysis , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology , psychotherapist
Darwish’s words echo those of millions of Palestinian refugees whose loss of a Home has led them to a lifelong struggle for the reconstruction of the concept. They resonate with thoughts of Palestinians everywhere who find themselves, after 60 years of displacement, locked in an endless search for the requisition of a Home, a process that is gradually becoming more of a symbol than a political end. Scores of academic essays have examined the right of return, the peace process and the conditions inside refugee camps in Lebanon and elsewhere; yet few have successfully dealt with the way in which Palestinian refugees have coped with the difficulties of those very conditions and actively sought to find meaning to the experience of displacement.