A Party for Thaera: Palestinian Women Write Life in Prison

In a first nine politically-diverse women former Palestinian political prisoners sat around a table in a small room in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank to share their stories of incarceration. These non-writers learnt to express the reality of their time in prison of the separation from their children of the endless struggles against Israeli occupation to produce heartfelt narratives that go beyond simply recalling the details of their sentence or revisiting their trauma. instead this unique volume transforms their experiences into an expression of the self giving readers an exceptional insight into an almost unknown womens world of life and love behond bars and beyond.