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The Palestinian researcher, Dr. Ashjan Ajour from Gaza wins the “International Palestinian Book Award” for the year 2022 in the category of academic books.

Organized by the Middle East Monitor, for her book, “Reclaiming Humanity in the Hunger Strike Experience.”

I wrote about the award:
The researcher Ashjan Ajour wrote, immediately after winning the award for the academic research category: “It is a great honor to win the Palestine Book Award

2022, considering that the real honor is for the prisoners who are engaged in the experience of the battle of hunger strike, and who without their courage

What was the book?

Researcher Ashjan Ajour expressed, in a post on her Facebook page, her hope that academic research would contribute to this

Documenting the Palestinian struggle.

Speaking of the book:
On the other hand, researcher Dr. Ashjan Ajour said in a previous interview that the book relied on 85 interviews to study this phenomenon with prisoners

Freedmen who went on hunger strike, with their families and the lawyers who represented them, as well as representatives of the captive movement

political parties.

The book places the strikes in the historical context of settler colonialism in general and the captive movement in particular, especially the period

After Oslo, according to Ajour.

Book description:
The book focuses on studying the interaction of prisoners with the looting and dehumanization operations carried out by the colonialists in prisons

Occupation, and how resisting the strike is a process of restoring the humanity that the colonial project aims to confiscate.

The study also argues that in resisting the mechanisms of dispossession, the hunger strikers devised techniques of resistance and strategies to challenge the machine.

colonialism, to form their revolutionary selves. According to the researcher, the book seeks to clarify the strikers' philosophy of arming the body

In addition, it provides a detailed analytical account of the resistance process and how to confront the colonial machine by turning the bodies of prisoners into weapons.

The book, which is divided into 14 chapters, also touches on the arming of the body and the resistance techniques developed by the prisoners to resist the attacks.

Dispossession, the use of the body in resistance, the formation of the revolutionary self in experience, the steadfastness of prisoners, and the concept of victory and sovereignty over

The body, the relationship of the individual self to the collective, and the negotiations that the writer considered a battle within the strike battle.

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