De l’exil forcé à l’exil choisi… Entretien avec Elias Sanbar

Militant, historien, poète, traducteur, Elias Sanbar est peut-être avant tout écrivain. Écrivain de la mémoire, écrivain « amoureux de la Palestine », il évoque dans cet entretien, son expérience de l’exil, d’abord forcé, lorsque sa famille est contrainte de quitter la Palestine en 1948, puis choisi lorsque retourner sur la terre natale devient possible mais non obligatoire, lorsqu’on a pris goût à la circulation entre des espaces, des sociétés différentes, lorsque l’exil est vécu non comme une seule perte, mais comme l’occasion d’élargir son horizon de vie.Activist, historian, poet, translator, Elias Sanbar is perhaps above all a writer. Writer of memory, writer “in love with Palestine”, he depicts his exilic experience in this interview. In the first place, a forced exile when his family was compelled to leave Palestine in 1948; and then a self-imposed exile as the return journey to his homeland became possible but not compulsory, and when one acquired the taste of the circulation between spaces, and different societies, and when the exile becomes an opportunity to broaden one’s life horizon rather than as a loss

De l’exil forcé à l’exil choisi… Entretien avec Elias Sanbar

Activist, historian, poet, translator, Elias Sanbar is perhaps above all a writer. Writer of memory, writer “in love with Palestine”, he depicts his exilic experience in this interview. In the first place, a forced exile when his family was compelled to leave Palestine in 1948; and then a self-imposed exile as the return journey to his homeland became possible but not compulsory, and when one acquired the taste of the circulation between spaces, and different societies, and when the exile becomes an opportunity to broaden one’s life horizon rather than as a loss

Les usages politiques du passé

Que le passé se prête à des usages politiques, toute l’histoire de l’historiographie l’atteste. D’où vient alors que le souci d’une manipulation du passé se fasse toujours plus insistant, comme en témoignent la récente querelle des historiens allemands sur la signification du nazisme ou celle, en cours, sur le communisme ? Autour de quelques dossiers actuels, cet ouvrage s’attache à réfléchir sur notre présent historiographique et ses multiples usages politiques

Palestine : memoire et territoires

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Liberating methodologies and Nakba studies: Palestinian history and memory from below as sites of lifelong learning

Historians too often construct frameworks and methodologies which obfuscate social, economic and political oppression. This article explores new historical methodologies that can represent oppressed and marginalised groups in Palestine. In particular the article focuses on the role of indigenous history and memory in critical learning and shaping individual and collective identity in Palestine. It further argues that Palestinian memories ‘from below’ since the Nakba have played a major positive role in the recovery from the traumatic catastrophe and the reconstruction of Palestinian identity. The article critiques the manipulation of collective memory by social, political and economic elites and top-down nationalist approaches. It argues that reconfigured popular memories can be liberating and empowering for embattled Palestinians. The article also calls for the establishment of an interdisciplinary subfield of Nakba Studies that would bring together historians, social memory and cultural theorists, postcolonial scholars and scholars of trauma studies with the aim of documenting and studying the embattled social memory of Palestine as a site of lifelong learning and empowerment