Bookclub for Palestine: "Palestinian Women's Activism"

We are having our fourth reading session with the book "Palestinian Women's Activism: Nationalism, Secularism, Islamism" by historian and activist Islah Jad. While crucial in Palestinian struggles already before the British Mandate, Palestinian women's experience and influence are often belittled in many traditional narratives. While on the other hand, by deliberately ignoring their voices and negating their agency (especially in the Islamist branch), the West and the Zionist regime keeps portraying a negative image of the Palestinian struggle and promoting white saviourism and imperialist agenda with the excuse of saving Palestinian women, without basic understanding of the local women.

By reading this book together, we hope to understand better Palestinian women's experience and theoretical innovations, as well as the different approaches Palestinian women are taking in the collective struggle of their people.

Trigger warning: Rape, Murder. We have our reading group on every second Saturday of the month: save the date of 08.08. !

Please contact us per Email <sfpheidelberg[at]protonmail.com> or via Instagram <@sfp-heidelberg> to get more information, to get access to a digital version of the book, or for book suggestions!