Publication Date

3-13-2025

Document Type

Article

Organizational Units

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Religious Studies

Keywords

Palestine, Qudsiyya Khurshid, Mandate Palestine, Islam, Radio broadcast, Women

Abstract

This article works to recover the life story of Qudsiyya Khurshid, a once well-known Mandate Palestinian intellectual and educator, who wrote essays for publication and for broadcasting on the Palestine Broadcasting Service, while working as a principal at girls’ schools in al-Bireh and Jerusalem. One of a number of educated women active in the Mandate public sphere, she disappeared from public consciousness after the Nakba. But in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, where she had moved with her husband, a naturalized U.S. citizen, she became a prominent figure in civic work and as a community speaker on Palestinian and Middle Eastern life and culture. Recovering her full life story makes it possible to better appreciate the opportunities available for Palestinian women during the Mandate period and to similarly appreciate the efforts and impact of early Palestine activism among displaced Palestinians in the United States.

Copyright Date

3-13-2025

Copyright Statement / License for Reuse

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Rights Holder

Andrea L. Stanton

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

Extent

18 pgs

File Size

769 KB

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the Author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance. This article was originally published as:

Stanton, A. L. (2025). Recovering Palestinian lives: Qudsiyya Khurshid from Mandate Palestine to postwar Pennsylvania. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002074382500008X

Publication Title

International Journal of Middle East Studies

First Page

1

Last Page

18

ISSN

1471-6380

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