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Article: The struggle of Palestinian women in the occupied territories: between national and social liberation.
- Article from:
- Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
- Author:
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The momentous "breakthrough" in negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, that culminated in the signing of a joint Declaration of Principles in Washington, D.C. on 13 September 1993, caught veteran Middle East analysts by surprise. Observers immediately scrambled to make sense of these accords and to assess their implications. The possibility of peace "breaking out" and of Palestinians finally enjoying some sort of self-rule, which, if they played their cards right, could eventually result in full sovereignty, seemed to have left Palestinian women at the wayside. Talking about Palestinian women at this point appeared rather ridiculous and ...