Nahla Abdo is professor of sociology at Carleton University, Canada. She has previously worked as a consultant on gender and women's rights for the United Nations, the European Union, and the Palestinian Ministry for Women's Affairs. Her previous books include Captive Revolution (2014) and Women in Israel: Gender, Race and Citizenship (Zed 2011).

Nur-eldeen (Nur) Masalha is a Palestinian historian and a member of the Centre for Palestine Studies at SOAS, University of London. He was previously a professor of religion and politics at St Mary's University, and a research fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies in Washington D.C. His previous books include The Palestine Nakba (Zed 2012) and The Bible and Zionism (Zed 2007).

Much of the current scholarship is confined to specific area studies and raw data. This book offers a wide-ranging study of the Nakba, using oral history as a means of identifying new directions and perspectives for Palestinian scholarship.

Introduction - Nahla Abdo and Nur Masalha

Part I: Theorizing the Nakba and Oral History
1. Decolonising Methodology, Reclaiming Memory: Palestinian Oral Histories and Memories of the Nakba - Nur Masalha
2. Feminism, Indigenousness and Settler Colonialism: Oral History, Memory and the Nakba - Nahla Abdo

Part II: Between Epistemology and Ontology: Nakba Embodiment
3. What Bodies Remember: Sensory Experience as Historical Counterpoint in the Nakba Archive - Diana Allan
4. The Time of Small Returns: Affect and Resistance During the Nakba - Lena Jayyusi

Part III: Archiving the Nakba through Palestinian Refugee Women's Voices
5. Nakbah Silencing and the Challenge of Palestinian Oral History - Rosemary Sayigh
6. Shu'fat Refugee Camp Women Authenticate an Old 'Nakba' and Frame Something 'New' while Narrating It - Laura Khoury
7. Gender Representation of Oral History: Palestinian Women Narrating the Stories of their Displacement - Faiha Abdel-Hadi

Part IV: The Nakba and 48 Palestinians
8. The Ongoing Nakba: Urban Palestinian Survival in Haifa - Himmat Zubi
9. Suffourieh: A Continuous Tragedy - Amina Qablawi Nasrallah
10. The Sons and Daughters of Eilaboun - Hisham Zreiq
11. 'This Is Your Father's Land': Palestinian Bedouin Women Encounter the Nakba in the Naqab - Safa Abu-Rabi'a

Part V: Documenting Nakba Narratives from the Gaza Strip and the Shatat
12. The Young Do Not Forget - Mona Al-Farra
13. Gaza Remembers: Narratives of Displacement in Gaza's Oral History - Malaka Mohammad Shwaikh
14. 'Besieging the Cultural Siege': Mapping Narratives of Nakba through Orality and Repertoires of Resistance - Chandni Desai