This article is framed as a question about historical methodology that imagines another way of living with the stories of the past.
By investigating two massacres in Palestine (Tantura and Kafr Qasem), the article presents an alternate reading of the past, both in terms of Palestinian voices and relationality with historical sources. By arguing from an understanding informed by Indigenous history as a decolonial praxis, this article relies on the voices and work of two women, Radwa Ashour and Samia Halaby, to map anew the stories of the past through the ongoing violence of the present. Their work forms the basis for engagement with the primary question: Can imagining Indigenous history, of which settler colonial violence is just one branch, be more than the victim’s desperate plea that settlers recognise a people’s humanity?
* This study was published in the 11th issue of AlMuntaqa, a peer-reviewed academic journal for the social sciences and humanities. You can read the full paper here.
