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A new memoir that shatters the notion that Muslim women did not play an active role in armed resistance national liberation struggles.
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Nawal Baidoun is a lifelong militant and activist from Bint Jbeil, South Lebanon. Before the occupation she graduated from law school; she subsequently worked as a teacher; and today is the Principal of the High School in Bint Jbeil. She is a founding and active member of the Lebanese Association for Prisoners and Liberators (LAPL). A firm advocate of freedom and liberation for all, Baidoun continues to be active in the struggle for prisoners’ rights and other social justice causes in Lebanon and beyond. This memoir is her first published work.
Caline Nasrallah is a literary translator, editor, and researcher with a focus on language as a feminist tool. She has co-translated two novels,
A Long Walk from Gaza being her third. Her editing and translation work spans fiction and non-fiction. She endeavors to put language at the service of liberation in each of her projects.
Michelle Hartman is a professor of Arabic Literature at McGill University and literary translator of fiction, based in Montreal. She has written extensively on women’s writing and the politics of language use and translation and literary solidarities. She is the translator of several works from Arabic, including Radwa Ashour’s memoir
The Journey, Iman Humaydan’s novels
Wild Mulberries and
Other Lives, Jana Elhassan’s IPAF shortlisted novels
The Ninety-Ninth Floor and
All the Women Inside Me as well as Alexandra Chreiteh’s novels
Always Coca Cola and
Ali and His Russian Mother.
Malek Abisaab is Associate Professor at McGill University in the departments of History and Classical Studies and the Institute of Islamic Studies. A historian, his work focuses on gender, labor, Islamism, and the nation-state in the Middle East. His books include,
Militant Women of a Fragile Nation (Syracuse UP, 2010) and (with Rula Jurdi Abisaab)
The Shiites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah’s Islamists (Syracuse UP, 2017).
