{"product_id":"unrecognized-a-palestinian-bedouin-feminist-in-israel-9781978848924","title":"Unrecognized: A Palestinian Bedouin Feminist in Israel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1998, when Mona Al-Habanin was twenty-eight years old and pregnant with her sixth child, she stood before a council of al-Naqab Bedouin shaykhs and faced the most difficult decision of her life: give up her children or be responsible for more killings in her tribe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book tells the extraordinary story of Mona Al-Habanin (b. 1970), the first Bedouin woman to run for elected office in Israel's Negev Desert. Through Mona's life, it illuminates Indigenous Bedouin women's traumas and resilience while documenting a genealogy of contemporary Palestinian Bedouin feminism. It traces her journey from desert tent dwelling through forced dislocation, her community's struggles with violence against women, and her battle for her children--against state-sanctioned tribal justice rooted in British colonial paradigms and Zionist settler-native relations--and to her turn to fierce and irreverent activism, taboo-breaking, and political trailblazing. This book tells the story of an unrecognized community under siege and of a new form of Indigenous feminism that bravely defies the violence of silencing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978848924\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266","brand":"Lihi Ben Shitrit,Mona Al-Habanin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53514291740853,"sku":"9781978848924","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781978848924.jpg?v=1791903449","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/unrecognized-a-palestinian-bedouin-feminist-in-israel-9781978848924","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}