- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Translation and Transliteration
- Foreword - Mahmoud Zeidan
- Introduction: Past Continuous - Diana Allan
- Part I: Life in Pre-1948 Palestine
- 1. Village Life in Palestine - Rochelle Davis
- 2. Of Forests and Trees: City Life in 1930s Palestine - Sherene Seikaly
- 3. The Margin and the Centre in Narrating Pre-1948 Palestine - Amirah Silmi
- 4. Mandated Memory: The Schooling of Palestine in Nicola Zaideh’s and Anis Sayigh’s Pre-1948 Recollections - Dyala Hamzah
- Part II: The British Mandate and Palestinian and Arab Resistance
- 5. Motivations and Tensions of Palestinian Police Service Under British Rule - Alex Winder
- 6. Storying the Great Arab Revolt: Narratives of Resistance During 1936-39 - Jacob Norris
- 7. Songs of Resistance - Ted Swedenburg
- 8. The Roots of the Nakba - Salman Abu Sitta
- 9. Four Villages, Four Stories: Ethnic Cleansing Massacres in al-Jalil - Saleh Abdel Jawad
- 10. Remembering the Fight - Laila Parsons
- Part IV: Flight and Exile
- 11. The Dispossession of Lydda - Lena Jayyusi
- 12. Scars of the Mind: Trauma, Gender and Counter-Memories of the Nakba - Ruba Salih
- 13. The Politics of Listening - Cynthia Kreichati
- Afterword: Oral History in Palestinian Studies - Rosemary Sayigh
- Contributors and Translators
- Glossary
- Notes
- Index