The Best of Hard Times: Palestinian Refugee Masculinities in Lebanon
(Part of the Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East Series)
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The Best of Hard Times 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. While the fida'iyyinn displayed their masculinity through active resistance and fighting to return to...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0815637233
ISBN13:9780815637233
Release Date:January 2022
Publisher:Syracuse University Press
Length:360 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 8.0" x 8.9"
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