Today in class we discussed Islamic Revloution and reasons for the shift in different things. I find it so interesting how cultures can be so different yet similar in the same manner. Revolutions come about after a time of dispair and I think that is a common theme throughout empires.
"Gate Of The Sun" by Elias Khory focuses on the Nakba of Palestine people.
A quote from Khoury’s novel reveals the mood of the times. “I’m scared of history that has only one version. History has dozens of versions, and for it to ossify into one leads only to death.” I think that this quote reflects the fearfulness in one way of looking as history. If history was only interperted through one perception than there would be so many deaths to societies in terms of people not understanding the other side. There is always another side to history and it has many different versions. History is not finding out the truth of the past by analyzing the truths.
i liked the point made about how cultures can be so similiar.. its true. as different as we all are, there is a force that pulls us together. thats why when i hear that people are dying because they are different saddens me like what happened in Rwanda.
ReplyDeleteanother common theme about revolutions is that even if cultures are different, it has been noticed that usually the revolutions are created by the students, the merchants and the religious!
I also really enjoyed the quote you cited above. I also interpreted the quote as that the Jewish people only have the Holocaust to revert to when discussing their history. Because of this, one can argue that the Palestinians are being forced into seeing their history just as the Jewish people did: a Holocaust.
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