Summary
Sumud (steadfastness) entered the Palestinian nationalist lexicon to describe the task of those who lived under Israel’s military occupation: persisting physically and culturally in the land (Palestinian Chicago — Identity in Exile, PDF p.64).
Details
- In the nationalist iconography Lybarger describes, sumud was the feminized role assigned to the communities that remained within Palestine, in tension with the male guerrilla fighters (fida’iyun) and martyrs (shuhada’) in exile who sought to liberate the land figured as a woman (PDF p.64).