sumud
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Arabic صُمُود (ṣumūd, “steadfastness; firmness, resistance”).
Noun[edit]
sumud (uncountable)
- Steadfastness, as a Palestinian value; steadfast Palestinianness and resistance to colonization, arrest, etc by Israel.
- 2019 September 16, Carolyn Kagan, Mark Burton, Paul Duckett, Rebecca Lawthom, Asiya Siddiquee, Critical Community Psychology: Critical Action and Social Change, Routledge, →ISBN:
- Meari (2015) [...] introduc[es] the discourse of sumud. Sumud is
a Palestinian anticolonial construct promoted by Palestinians living under the colonial order, which constantly subjects Palestinians to arrest, […] The discourse of sumud is the praxis of struggle […] Sumud embodies a radical alterity […] Sumud is the refusal to confess or reveal secrets to interrogators […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:sumud.
See also[edit]
- sisu (similar Finnish concept)