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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
Shoulder to shoulder Palestinian women, with men, have been an active part of the struggle for liberation, going as far back as the beginning of European Jewish influx into Palestine in the late 19th century. The progress, however, was never linear. The societal collapse that followed the 1948 Nakba saw women’s political engagement change from visible activism, to the role of mainly preserving collective memory and national identity, often through the maintenance of cultural artefacts and oral history. With the coming of age of the post-Nakba generation and the establishment of the PLO in the …