Palestinian women’s anti-colonial struggle within the Israeli prison system

with Nahla Abdo, 16 June 2019 Professor Nahla Abdo is author of Captive Revolution which seeks to break the silence on Palestinian women political detainees, providing a vital contribution to research on women, revolutions, national liberation and anti-colonial resistance. Based on stories of the women themselves, as well as her own experiences as a former political prisoner, Abdo draws on a wealth of oral history and primary research in order to analyse their anti-colonial struggle, their agency and their appalling treatment as political detainees.