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A White Lie

A White Lie

Albatta, Madeeha Hafez

Paperback

Series: Women's Voices from Gaza

Biographies GeneralFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1772124923
ISBN13: 9781772124927
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Published: Oct 15 2020
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
This first narrative in the Women's Voices from Gaza Series turns the clock back more than ninety years and invites readers on a journey of reimagining a once-upon-a-time in Palestine. Madeeha Hafez Albatta's story recounts a life of happiness, uncertainty, loss, and also, ultimately, of pride, resistance, and hope. Weaving together many narrative threads, A White Lie unearths a version of history long excluded from mainstream discourse, illuminating a vibrant culture, rich community relations, old traditions, and grand resistance. Madeeha was born and raised in Khan Younis, a town in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and her life took her, along with her family, across mandatory Palestine to Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Tunis, the United States, Germany, Greece, Austria, and Canada. In 1938, Madeeha had to resort to tricking her family into allowing her to attend college. That white lie changed her life forever. She became a teacher while still in her teens and then the principal of a school while in her early twenties. As a teacher and headmistress, a campaigner for rights, an activist and community organizer, a mother, and a champion of dignity, Madeeha witnessed some of the most turbulent periods of Palestine's recent history. Her narrative preserves minute details of distinctly Palestinian individual and collective life through different eras and regimes. It depicts a vibrant culture, old traditions, customs, and other critical features of Palestinian society that readers rarely encounter.

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