<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div>Amahl Bishara discusses her new book, Crossing a Line, with Sarah Ihmoud</div><div>on the CaMP anthropology blog today.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://campanthropology.org" target="_blank">https://campanthropology.org</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Ilana</div><div><br></div><div>Press blurb: Palestinians living on different sides of the Green Line
make up approximately one-fifth of Israeli citizens and about four-fifths of
the population of the West Bank. In both groups, activists assert that they
share a single political struggle for national liberation. Yet, obstacles
inhibit their ability to speak to each other and as a collective. Geopolitical
boundaries fragment Palestinians into ever smaller groups. Crossing a Line enters
these distinct environments for political expression and action of Palestinians
who carry Israeli citizenship and Palestinians subject to Israeli military
occupation in the West Bank, and considers how Palestinians are differently
impacted by dispossession, settler colonialism, and militarism.</div><p class="MsoNormal"><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Amahl Bishara looks to sites of political
practice—journalism, historical commemorations, street demonstrations, social
media, in prison, and on the road—to analyze how Palestinians create
collectivities in these varied circumstances. She draws on firsthand research,
personal interviews, and public media to examine how people shape and reshape
meanings in circumstances of constraint. In considering these different
environments for political expression and action, Bishara illuminates how
expression is always grounded in place—and how a people can struggle together
for liberation even when they cannot join together in protest.<span></span></p></div></div></div>