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Article: Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada.(Book Review)
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- The Oral History Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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OCCUPIED VOICES: STORIES OF EVERYDAY LIFE FROM THE SECOND INTIFADA. By Wendy Pearlman. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2003.276 pp. Softbound, $14.95.
This book is a welcome addition to the personal narratives of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)--particularly since it is one of the few English language collections to appear since the beginning of the second Palestinian intifada (uprising). Like many of the oral histories that were published during the first intifada (1987-1993), these were collected by a Jewish-American woman, Wendy Pearlman, a Middle East and North Africa politics doctoral student. The narratives are ...