MEMO in conversation with Lena Jayyusi

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01 September 2021

Watch our conversation with Dr Lena Jayyusi discussing her book 'Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation 1917-Present'. Published by Olive Branch Press, the book won the Palestine Book Awards Memoir Prize in 2015.

Dr Jayyusi is Professor Emeritus at Zayed University's College of Communication and Media in the UAE. Author of 'Categorization and the Moral Order', she has published works in media and cultural studies, film and visuality, memory and narrative, Palestinian national identity, and the discourses of international law and the Gaza war.

Winners of the Palestine Book Awards

  • Elastic empire: refashioning war through aid in palestine
  • The revolution of 1936–1939 in palestine
  • Against erasure: a photographic memory of palestine before the nakba
  • Out of gaza: new palestinian poetry
  • Knights of cinema: the story of the palestine film unit
  • Lana Makes Purple Pizza: A Palestinian Food Tale
  • They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
  • I Sing From the Window of Exile
  • Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity
  • Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948
  • Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir
  • Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
  • Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial
  • Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes : Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body
  • Psychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine
  • Power born of dreams: my story is palestine
  • Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization
  • Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies
  • Places of Mind: A life of Edward Said
  • Except for Palestine: The limits of progressive politics