No Place for Grief: Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine

Advances an understanding of loss, mourning, and grief in contemporary Palestine

Westerners 'know' Palestine through images of war and people in immediate distress. Yet this focus has as its consequence that other, less spectacular stories of daily distress are rarely told. Those seldom noticed are the women behind the men who engage in armed resistance against the military occupation: wives of the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention and the widows of the martyrs. In Palestine, being ...