Passage to the Plaza

Author : Sahar Khalifeh,Sawad Hussain

Hardback

Published : Wednesday 1 July 2020

ISBN : 9780857427700

Price : €22.22

Description

In Bab Al-Saha, a quarter of Nablus, Palestine, sits a house of ill repute. In it lives Nuzha, a young woman ostracized from and shamed by her community. When the Intifada breaks out, Nuzhaâ?Ts abode unexpectedly becomes a sanctuary for those in the quarter: Hussam, an injured resistance fighter; Samar, a university researcher exploring the impact of the Intifada on womenâ?Ts lives; and Sitt Zakia, the pious midwife. A  In the furnace of conflict at the heart of the 1987 Intifada, notions of freedom, love, respectability, nationhood, the rights of women, and Palestinian identityâ?"both among the reluctant residents of the house and the inhabitants of the quarter at largeâ?"will be melted and re-forged. Vividly recounted through the eyes of its female protagonists, Passage to the Plaza is a groundbreaking story that shatters the myth of a uniform gendered experience of conflict. A 

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