'What is the task but to find my way back to the unfragmentation of the world as we knew it; to collect the uncollected, to make the unmade. To refuse victimhood even when annihilation seems to insist on it. To make a thing out of nothing, to make a diaspora into something, real enough to share.'
What does the daughter of a Nakba survivor inherit? It is not property or tangible heirlooms, none of which can crisscross the globe with their refugee owners. It is not the streets and neighbourhoods of a father's childhood and the deep roots of family who have lived in one place, Jerusalem, for generation upon generation.
Fixing her gaze on moments, places and objects – from the streets of Bethlehem to the Palestinian neighbourhoods of the New Jerusalem – Micaela Sahhar assembles a story of Palestinian diaspora, returning to the origins of violence in the Nakba. Find me at the Jaffa Gate is a book about the gaps and blank spaces that cannot be easily recounted, but which insists on the vibrant reality of chance, fragments and memory to reclaim a place called home.
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- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Under Pigeons: A Melbourne prologue
- 1 Origin
- 2 Patriarchs
- 3 Aunts
- 4 Freemasons
- 5 Palestine Restaurants
- 6 Bethlehem
- 7 Abandoned
- 8 Jerusalem Railway Station
- 9 Best Cake (Hilbe)
- 10 East/West
- 11 Wedding (1932)
- 12 Friends Girls’ School
- 13 Intifada
- 14 Cars
- 15 The ABC women
- 16 The Roma
- 17 Najla
- 18 Water carrier
- 19 Ma’amoul
- 20 Italian Hospital
- 21 Revenge
- 22 Fil mish mish
- 23 Mr Settler-Colonialism
- 24 Road trip
- 25 Mamillah
- 26 The maps here are useless
- 27 Visit Palestine
- 28 Fruits of the Loom
- 29 Pa and the Turks (in Palestine)
- 30 Cyprus
- 31 Snow fight
- 32 (Not Running), in Ramallah
- 33 Owl
- 34 Skeletons
- 35 This way to the bomb shelter
- 36 Traveller, welcome!
- 37 Jerusalem syndrome
- 38 Our local parish
- 39 Hands
- 40 An exception cannot be compared
- 41 My diaspora
- 42 The seamstress of Jerusalem
- 43 God’s Richest Blessings
- 44 Who are the Palestinians?
- 45 Portraiture
- 46 The Semiramis Hotel
- 47 8 Asa Street
- 48 Nakba
- Notes and references by entry
- A partial family tree
- List of images
- Acknowledgments
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