Biography and Contemporary History: Reading the Memoires of Salim Hijja

Abstract

Bilal Mohammed Shalash Director of Institute for Documenting Palestine (Ramallah, Palestine). He holds a research fellowship from the ACRPS for a research project on the garrison of Jaffa and its military activity in the 1947-1948 war. He received a scholarship for the MA in Israeli Studies at Birzeit University and is interested in researching the history of Palestinian armed resistance.