| ID | 075265 |
| Title Proper | Prisoners for freedom |
| Other Title Information | the prisoners issue before and after Oslo |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Wishah, Um Jabr |
| Publication | 2006. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This is the third and final installment of Um Jabr's "life story," earlier segments of which-on village life in pre-1948 Palestine and on the 1948 war and its aftermath-were published in JPS 138 (winter 2006) and JPS 140 (summer 2006). The current excerpts focus on Um Jabr's intense involvement in the prisoner issue that began when two of her sons were in Israeli jails. In particular, her activism took the form of organizing other women to visit prisoners from Arab countries who had no one to visit them on the twice monthly visits allowed. Um Jabr's 36,000-word "life story" was one of seven collected as part of an oral history project, as yet unpublished, carried out by Barbara Bill, an Australian who since 1996 has worked with the Women's Empowerment Project of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, and Ghada Ageel, a refugee from al-Bureij camp now earning her Ph.D. at the University of Exeter in England. The women who participated in the project were interviewed a number of times during the first half of 2001; after the tapes were transcribed, the memories were set down exactly as they were told, the only "editing" being the integration of material from the various interviews into one "life story." Um Jabr, who was in her early 70s at the time of the interviews, still lives in al-Bureij camp, where she has since 1950. |
| `In' analytical Note | Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. 36, No. 1; Autumn 2006: p71-80 |
| Journal Source | Journal of Palestine Studies Vol: 36 No 1 |
| Key Words | Palestine ; Prisoners ; Oslo Accord - Pre Period ; Oslo Accord - Post Period |