Join CPS for a Palestine Library book talk with Perla Issa about her recent publication, The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions: An Everyday Perspective from Nahr el-Bared Camp (University of California Press, 2021). Rashid Khalidi will moderate the conversation.

The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions is an ethnographic study of Palestinian political factions in Lebanon through an immersion in daily home life. Perla Issa asks how political factions remain the center of political life in the Palestinian camps in the face of mounting criticism. Through an examination of the daily, mundane practices of refugees in Nahr el-Bared camp in particular, this book shows how intimate, interpersonal, and kin-based relations are transformed into political networks and offers a fresh analysis of how those networks are in turn metamorphosed into political structures. By providing a detailed and intimate account of this process, this book reveals how factions are produced and reproduced in everyday life despite widespread condemnation.
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Perla Issa is a researcher at the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut, Lebanon.

Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University.