2023/10/27 by Muzna Awayed‐Bishara · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Computer Science · #Multilingual Education and Policy #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0047404523000891
openalex publication_date 2023/10/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/03
Abstract This linguistic ethnographic study offers a nuanced pedagogical account of the Arabic term sumud, or ‘steadfastness’, through a sociolinguistic analysis of decolonial modes of expression among Palestinian youth in Israel. I reflect on events during the 2021 uprisings in East Jerusalem, when Palestinian youth within Israel took to the streets in solidarity with Palestinians in Jerusalem and Gaza. Considering the Israeli education system's denationalization of the Palestinian community within its borders, I examine how Palestinian political ideals cultivated outside the formal educational system open new possibilities for political organizing and expression. I reflect upon interviews with members of the Haifa Youth Movement and a Palestinian hip-hop artist and his lyrics. Engaging with Stroud's theorization of linguistic citizenship, I show how pedagogy of sumud as a linguistic citizenship practice opens new semiotic spaces for Palestinian youth in Israel to resist the erasure of their identity. (Linguistic citizenship, sumud pedagogy, Palestinian youth, colonized education)*