Women, Water and Memory: Recasting Lives in Palestine

This book tells a different story about water. Against the backdrop of the end of the Ottoman Empire, Mandate period, the founding of Israel, the Arab-Israeli wars and Palestinian uprisings, old Palestinian women recount life before and after piped water.

Nefissa Naguib, Ph.D. (2003), is associate professor in anthropology and development studies at Oslo University College and is currently working on the research project Global Moments in the Levant, based at the University of Bergen and financed by the Norwegian Research Council. She is co-editor, with I.M. Okkenhaug, of Interpreting Welfare and Relief in the Middle East (Brill, 2007) and has written extensively on women, armed conflict, and minorities and the politics of memory. At present, she is editing a book on the evolvement, journey and impact of cuisine(s) from the Nile Valley to the Indus.