Qudsiyya Khurshid belonged to the first generation of Palestinian broadcasters, joining the Palestine Broadcasting Service shortly after its launch in 1936. An educator and writer, she was among a small but expanding circle of women shaping Arab intellectual life in mandate-era Palestine. Afterleaving in 1948, she settled in Pennsylvania, where she remained active in civic and community work. What can her life tell us about gender, media, and everyday experience in the decade before the Nakba? This question is explored by our guest today, Andrea Stanton, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Denver, in her article “Recovering Palestinian Lives: Qudsiyya Khurshid from Mandate Palestine to Postwar Pennsylvania,” published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies.

Guest: Andrea Stanton, Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Denver
Interviewer: Khaled Ezzelarab, Associate Professor of Practice, Journalism and Mass Communication Department, and Director of the Middle East Studies Program, American University in Cairo
Article: Stanton, Andrea L. "Recovering Palestinian Lives: Qudsiyya Khurshid from Mandate Palestine to Postwar Pennsylvania." International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 56, no. 4, 2024, pp. 627-644.

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