Amal Elsana Alh'jooj

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One Rotten Tomato

One Rotten Tomato

From: Hope is a Woman's Name

In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes her experiences during the intifada, as she returned to school and secretly organized a flag-waving protest on the bus. 13 $1.30 Add
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Open the Jar

Open the Jar

From: Hope is a Woman's Name

In this chapter, Alh’jooj discusses her experiences confronting repressed feelings for Anwar, a boy from the unrecognized village of Awajian. 8 $0.80 Add
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Ordinary People

Ordinary People

From: Hope is a Woman's Name

In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes her experiences in al-Grin, an unrecognized Bedouin village in Israel, as she navigated Bedouin social customs to address genetic deafness caused by … 6 $0.60 Add
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Our New Project

Our New Project

From: Hope is a Woman's Name

In this chapter, Alh’jooj discusses her experiences with IVF treatment at Soroka Hospital and the February birth of twins, Adan and Moad. 13 $1.30 Add
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Our Polish-Jewish Mother

Our Polish-Jewish Mother

From: Hope is a Woman's Name

In this chapter, Alh’jooj traces the bond in contemporary Israel between a Palestinian Arab family in Beer a-Saba and their Polish-Jewish nanny, Paulina, who became a mother figure to the twins. 6 $0.60 Add
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Politics versus People

Politics versus People

From: Hope is a Woman's Name

In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes her experiences navigating daily encounters that challenge the boundaries between ethnic identity and shared humanity. 7 $0.70 Add
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Polygamy and Sisterhood

Polygamy and Sisterhood

From: Hope is a Woman's Name

In this chapter, Alh’jooj discusses her experiences with polygamy within the Bedouin community in Israel. 3 $0.30 Add
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Seventeen Kilometers Away but Worlds Apart

Seventeen Kilometers Away but Worlds Apart

From: Hope is a Woman's Name

In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes her first day at a university in Israel, roughly seventeen kilometres from her village of Laqiya. 4 $0.40 Add
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Switching Gears

Switching Gears

From: Hope is a Woman's Name

In this chapter, Alh’jooj discusses her experiences as she navigates between her a-Sana Bedouin heritage and her identity as a feminist activist at Ben Gurion University. 4 $0.40 Add
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Taking Pride in Your Donkey

Taking Pride in Your Donkey

From: Hope is a Woman's Name

In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes her experiences teaching in the unrecognized village of Um Mitnan near Dimona in the 1990s. 10 $1.00 Add
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Taking Revenge While Keeping Your Hands Clean

Taking Revenge While Keeping Your Hands Clean

From: Hope is a Woman's Name

In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes her experiences as a ten- year-old sheepherder in a rural Arab village,and how a man assaulted her while chasing a runaway cow. 6 $0.60 Add
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Tel a-Saba

Tel a-Saba

From: Hope is a Woman's Name

In this chapter, Alh’jooj traces her political awakening at a government-built Bedouin high school in Tel a-Saba, a planned Naqab town. 8 $0.80 Add
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The Bicycle

The Bicycle

From: Hope is a Woman's Name

In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes her experienes secretly riding a bicycle in defiance of her tribe’s rigid norms. 10 $1.00 Add
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The First Bedouin Feminist

The First Bedouin Feminist

From: Hope is a Woman's Name

In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes her experiences where her community work in Laqiya was reduced by a journalist to the label "The First Bedouin Feminist." 7 $0.70 Add
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The Gatherer-Based Approach

The Gatherer-Based Approach

From: Hope is a Woman's Name

In this chapter, Alh’jooj traces a gatherer-based strategy for social change in which Bedouin women in Rahat were trained as photographers and videographers beginning in 2004, with support … 3 $0.30 Add
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The Influentials

The Influentials

From: Hope is a Woman's Name

In this chapter, Alh’jooj traces the formation of a joint Jewish and Bedouin civil society body in the Naqab and its visit to a military airbase built on land where the Bedouin were … 2 $0.20 Add