This collection of autobiographical essays offers a vivid and harrowing picture of war and its impact on daily life, as seen by two distinct perspectives. Israeli and Palestinian.

With the crisis in Israel not showing any signs of abating, this remarkable collection of autobiographical essays offers a vivid and harrowing picture of war and its impact on daily life, as seen from two distinct perspectives, Israeli and Palestinian. Edited by an Israeli and Palestinian scholar, the book focuses on some of the most disturbing effects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the loss born of social, cultural, national and gender dislocation, including alienation from one's own home, family, community, and society. All the contributors had multiple experiences of dislocation and exile.

Introduction: Writing Dislocation, Writing the Self: Bringing Back the Political into Gendered Israeli-Palestinian Dialoguing - Palestinian Women: Exile in Lebanon - Home as Exile - Life under Occupation - Israeli Jewish Women: Exile as Home - Exile as an Oppositional Locus - Existential States of Exile