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Hideous Hydropolitics in Darraj's A Curious Land

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Author(s): Yousef Awad , Tareq Zuhair

Publication date (Print): Spring 2017

Journal: Arab Studies Quarterly

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Keywords: water, hydropolitics, Susan Muaddi Darraj, Palestinian literature, resistance, Arab American literature

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Publication date (Print): Spring 2017

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Sinno, Nadine (2014). Five Troops for Every Tree; Lamenting Green Carnage in Contemporary Arab Women's War Diaries. Arab Studies Quarterly , 36(2), 107–127.
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[1] Awad, Yousef (2015). Displacement, Belonging and Identity in Susan Muaddi Darraj's The Inheritance of Exile . Studies in Literature and Language , 10(2), 1–10.

[2] Barbati, Gabriele (2013). World Water Wars: In the West Bank, Water Is Just Another Conflict Issue for Israelis and Palestinians. International Business Times , 7 December. Web. Accessed July 3, 2016. <http://www.ibtimes.com/world-water-wars-west-bank-water-just-another-conflict-issue-israelis-palestinians-1340783>.

[3] Bosch-Vilarrubias, Marta (2016). Post-9/11 Representations of Arab Men by Arab American Women Writers: Affirmations and Resistance . New York: Peter Lang.

[4] Cariello, Marta (2016). Female Genealogies of Place: Nation, City and Refugees Camps, in Susan Muaddi Darraj's The Inheritance of Exile . RiCOGNIZIONI: Rivista di lingue, letterature e culture modern 3(5), 73–85.

[5] CESR (2016). The Right to Water in Palestine: A Background. Web. Accessed August 15, 2016. <http://www.cesr.org/sites/default/files/downloads/ThirstingforJustice.pdf>.

[6] Coupe, Laurence (2013). The Green Theory. In The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory , eds. Simon Malpas and Paul Wake, 154–166. London and New York: Routledge.

[7] Darraj, Susan Muaddi (2015). A Curious Land: Stories from Home . Boston: University of Massachusetts Press.

[8] Halaby, Laila (2007). Once in a Promised Land . Boston: Beacon Press.

[9] Hall, Joseph (2015) Shared Sorrow, Shared Abundance: Water-waste Flows in Palestinian Literature. Postcolonial Studies 18(3), 257–278.

[10] Harlow, Barbara (1987). Resistance Literature . London: Routledge.

[11] Kovel, Joel (2007). Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel /Palestine . London and Toronto, ON: Pluto Press.

[12] Lautze, Jonathan and Paul Kirshen (2009). Water Allocation, Climate Change, and Sustainable Water Use in Israel/Palestine: The Palestinian Position. International Water 34(2), 189–203.

[13] Lemire, Vincent (2011). The Awakening of Palestinian Hydropolitical Consciousness: The Artas-Jerusalem Water Conflict of 1925. Jerusalem Quarterly 48, 31–53.

[14] Lowi, Miriam. R. (1995). Water and Power: The Politics of a Scarce Resource in the Jordan River Basin . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[15] METAP (n.d.). Climate Change Adaptation in the Water Sector in the Middle East and North Africa: A Review of Main Issues. Web. Accessed June 20, 2016. <http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/rome2007/docs/Climate_Change_Adaptation_Water_Sector_NENA.pdf>.

[16] Pappe, Ilan (2013). The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel . New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press.

[17] Selby, Jan (2003) Water, Power and Politics in the Middle East: The Other Israel-Palestine Conflict . London and New York: I. B. Tauris.

[18] Sinno, Nadine (2014). Five Troops for Every Tree; Lamenting Green Carnage in Contemporary Arab Women's War Diaries. Arab Studies Quarterly , 36(2), 107–127.

[19] Weizman, Eyal (2007). Hollo Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation . London and New York: Verso.

[20] Zeitoun, Mark (2008). Power and Water in the Middle East: The Hidden Politics of the Palestinian-Israeli Water Conflict . London and New York: I. B. Tauris.