...such conditions [occupation of the west bank and gaza strip, oppression of palestinians under israeli military rule from the late 1960s to the late 1980s] have intensified patriarchy within the palestinian traditional culture. (...)

the accentuation of patriarchy through military occupation and settler colonial rule, in other words, widens the gender gap, leading the relationship between gender, textuality and orality assuming particular forms, where textuality becomes the male tool of expression while women’s voices, words and contributions are expressed in oral form (...)

we have been arguing that women's resistance including their participation in the armed struggle has remained largely in the realm of oral history rather than the written official one.

it was not until the late 1980s, partly due to women's massive participation in the first intifada (1987—1992) that female resistance literary production began to emerge, with contributions by authors such as fadwa tuqan, liana badr, and sahar khalifeh to name a few.

there is one step from "karaoke videos" to the questions of freedom and oppression, the production and consumption of "high" culture and the language (un)accessibility of cultural space

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