Thayer Hastings

Thayer Hastings is a PhD Candidate in the Anthropology Department at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City with a focus on political anthropology and the Middle East.

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Manasheer of the First Palestinian Intifada: Bayan no.1 (UNLI)

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Thayer Hastings

8 January 2025

The document below is a scanned image of a Palestinian bayan (sing.), a communique or leaflet, from the first Intifada. It was distributed on 8 January 1988, in the first days of the popular and mass uprising throughout Palestine. To understand the context that this document emerged from, we encourage you to explore the history […]

Series: Radical History Review

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Palestinian bayan

Communiques were central to the coordination of the mass popular uprising that challenged Israeli rule over Palestinians from 1987 until the early 1990s. These short political texts were called manasheer or bayanat al-Intifada, in Arabic. The Teaching Tool, Manasheer of the First Palestinian Intifada, profiles one such bayan, the first of the serialized bayanat distributed by […]

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Arabic

Continents

Asia

Geographies

Palestine

Themes

Anti-apartheid Anti-imperialism anticolonial creativity Anticolonialism Arab Left Palestine

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Manasheer of the First Palestinian Intifada: Bayan no.1 (UNLI)