"For all that has been written about them, Palestinians still remain unknown and misunderstood particularly in the West. Similarly, despite their profound loss and suffering over the last, nearly seven decades, it is still necessary to defend the humanity of Palestinians to those who do not know them. Nina Gren provides a thoughtful and well-researched corrective to this shameful reality ... Read morewith her study of daily life among refugee families in the Dheisheh refugee camp, providing the reader with a window into a world few have ever seen let alone experienced. As such, her work constitutes an important and welcome contribution to the literature."
Sara Roy, Harvard University; "Although the text is based on an academic study, it's written for a larger audience. Gren does integrate a variety of social theoretical concepts into her arguments, but her style remains engaging, her writing concise, and her analysis and argument coherent. Ultimately the text aims to do what many texts don't-steer discussion from a solely state-centered politics to the mechanics of the everyday under a politics of occupation and repression, to show how "high politics" invades ordinary life." Nahrain Al-Mousawi, Middle East Monitor. Show Less