Everything We Thought Was Beautiful: Interviews with Radical Palestinian Women

Palestinian women are an essential—often silenced—part of global struggles for freedom. They are at the forefront of the anti-colonial struggle against Israel’s occupation of their lands, as well as being comrades in intersecting movements worldwide.

This series of interviews with Palestinian women living across Palestine and in the diaspora include a journalist on the front line of resistance against settlers and the Israeli army in the West Bank, a doctor working through the health apartheid of the Covid-19 pandemic in Gaza, another doctor exposing Israel’s deliberate targeting of medical infrastructure as part of its genocidal assault on Gaza, an organiser who critiques the Palestinian Authority’s repression of social media and those making their voices heard in the diaspora, and others.

Everything We Thought Was Beautiful: Interviews with Radical Palestinian Women broadcasts these women’s struggles in their own words and on all fronts—against colonialism, white supremacy, conservatism, patriarchy, state control—and Israel’s occupation. They discuss their politics, the fight for freedom, and their hope for the future.

Complied by Shoal Collective, a co-operative of independent writers and researchers writing for social justice and a world beyond capitalism, the voices include Rana Abu, Lina Nabulsy, Mona Al-Farra Zara, Samah Fadil, Lama Suleiman, Diana Khwaelid, Sireen Khudairy, Faiza Abu, Shahd Abusalama, Ghada Hamdan, and Shrouq Ail

About the Contributors

The Shoal Collective is an independent co-operative of writers and researchers. We produce news articles, investigations, analysis and theory-based writing as a contribution to, and a resource for, movements that are attempting to bring about social and political change.

Huwaida Arraf is a Palestinian American activist and lawyer who cofounded the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a Palestinian-led organization using nonviolent protests and international pressure to support Palestinians.

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