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Explores the gendered identities of two generations of men in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. Gustavo Barbosa compares the fida'iyyin, the men who served as freedom fighters to reconquer Palestine in the 1970s, to the shabab, their sons who lead seemingly mundane lives with limited access to power.

Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations, Tables, and Charts xi
  • Acknowledgments xiii
  • Acronyms xix
  • Timeline: History of the Palestinian Diaspora in Lebanon xxi
  • Introduction: Thinking through Water 1
  • 1. Submerging: Under Siege 43
  • 2. Drowning by Numbers and Legislation: Statistics
  • and (Non)State Making in Shatila 73
  • 3. Swirling and Twirling: The Fida’iyyin’s Heroism
  • and the Shabab’s Burden 122
  • 4. Pororoca, Thinking through Music: Fida’iyyin and Shabab Talk
  • (Sometimes) Past Each Other 181
  • 5. Reemerging: Noncockfights 236
  • 6. Resurfacing: The Antilove of Empire 251
  • Glossary of Levantine Arabic Terms 273
  • References 285
  • Index 311

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    Publisher: Syracuse University Press
    Publication Date: 30/01/2022
    ISBN13: 9780815637370, 978-0815637370
    ISBN10: 0815637373
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    Gender studies, gender groups Refugees and political asylum

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Explores the gendered identities of two generations of men in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. Gustavo Barbosa compares the fida'iyyin, the men who served as freedom fighters to reconquer Palestine in the 1970s, to the shabab, their sons who lead seemingly mundane lives with limited access to power.

    Table of Contents
    • List of Illustrations, Tables, and Charts xi
    • Acknowledgments xiii
    • Acronyms xix
    • Timeline: History of the Palestinian Diaspora in Lebanon xxi
    • Introduction: Thinking through Water 1
    • 1. Submerging: Under Siege 43
    • 2. Drowning by Numbers and Legislation: Statistics
    • and (Non)State Making in Shatila 73
    • 3. Swirling and Twirling: The Fida’iyyin’s Heroism
    • and the Shabab’s Burden 122
    • 4. Pororoca, Thinking through Music: Fida’iyyin and Shabab Talk
    • (Sometimes) Past Each Other 181
    • 5. Reemerging: Noncockfights 236
    • 6. Resurfacing: The Antilove of Empire 251
    • Glossary of Levantine Arabic Terms 273
    • References 285
    • Index 311

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