Amal Elsana Alh'jooj

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Delivered to a Stranger

Delivered to a Stranger

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 In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes the final days before her wedding to Anwar in late July and early August. 5 $0.50 Add
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Fresh Blood Under the Stars

Fresh Blood Under the Stars

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 In this chapter, Alh’jooj traces her social activist’s tension between her public advocacy and the domestic expectations imposed by family. 5 $0.50 Add
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Fridays: Victories and Defeats

Fridays: Victories and Defeats

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 In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes her memories of a Friday in mid-twentieth-century Israel, when the day suspended work, school, and commerce for the entire community. verdict to herd … 6 $0.60 Add
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God’s Works

God’s Works

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 In this chapter, Alh’jooj discusses her experiences preparing for for her Bedouin wedding. 1 $0.10 Add
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Graduation

Graduation

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 In this chapter, Alh’jooj discusses her 1996 graduation at Ben-Gurion University, and cultural tensions between her Bedouin family and the Israeli campus. 6 $0.60 Add
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Hannah

Hannah

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 In this chapter, Alh’jooj discuses her experience at a nursing home in Omer, Israel, where she met Hannah, an eighty-six-year-old Holocaust survivor. 7 $0.70 Add
Hope is a Woman's Name

Hope is a Woman’s Name

 The fifth daughter in a patriarchal society and an indigenous Bedouin in a Jewish state, Amal Elsana came into this world fighting for her right to exist. A shepherd at the age of five, she led … 447 View
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Hope’s Ashes

Hope’s Ashes

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 In this chapter, Alh’jooj recounts the arson of the Desert Embroidery Centre in Laqiya. 4 $0.40 Add
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If This Succeeds, We All Succeed

If This Succeeds, We All Succeed

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 In this chapter, Alh’jooj traces the 2006 effort by a Bedouin activist and the AJEEC organization to build a community-run kitchen in Hura, a Negev town, so that single mothers could … 8 $0.80 Add
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“I’m Not Going to Talk to a Woman”

“I’m Not Going to Talk to a Woman”

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 In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes her experiences during the second intifada and her campaign for equitable Bedouin children’s education in Israel. 8 $0.80 Add
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In the Name of Honor

In the Name of Honor

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 In this chapter, Alh’jooj discusses the murder of Ghazaale, an eighteen-year-old girl killed by family members in Beer a-Saba in what they frame as an honour defence. 5 $0.50 Add
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Jidatee and Karl Marx

Jidatee and Karl Marx

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 In this chapter,Alh’jooj discusses her experiences balanacing university life with family expectations in the Negev. 9 $0.90 Add
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Love, Hope and Work

Love, Hope and Work

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 In this chapter, Alh’jooj follows a Bedouin family’s 2009–2011 retreat at the Dead Sea, where thirteen siblings gathered to honour their parents’ decades of devotion. 6 $0.60 Add
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My Champion

My Champion

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 In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes her father, Abouee’s, fierce defence of his daughter Basma’s right to attend teachers’ college in Beer a-Saba during the late 1940s. 3 $0.30 Add
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Not My Flag

Not My Flag

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 In this chapter, Alh’jooj traces the tension between Palestinian identity and Israeli civic life in Beer a-Saba, where the author raises her twin sons within a predominantly Jewish community. 4 $0.40 Add
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On the Menu, but not at the Table

On the Menu, but not at the Table

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 In this chapter, Alh’jooj discusses her experiences defying tribal custom to marry Anwar, a man outside her clan. 4 $0.40 Add