This article was found in the NWSA Journal, and was written by Thomas Ricks, a research scholar on Iranian and Palestinian history. The full article is cited as:

Ricks, Thomas M. 2006. “In Their Own Voices: Palestinian High School Girls and Their Memories

of the Intifadas and Nonviolent Resistance to Israeli Occupation, 1987 to 2004.” NWSA

            Journal 18 (3): 88-103. Doi: 10.1353/nwsa.2006.0059.

Ricks interviews 17 and 18 year old Palestinian high school girls to detail their experiences in Palestine post-Intifadas. His objective is to reveal the hardships faced by Palestinians in their daily lives as a result of Israeli occupation. His data types are reports of acts, behaviors, and events and deeply held opinions and attitudes. To collect this qualitative data, he uses in-depth interviews (oral histories) and private records (school diaries). This article is credible because it was written in a peer-reviewed journal by a researcher with extensive knowledge on Palestine. Ricks’ interviews were interesting to me because he chose to interview young women, which is not a demographic that most Middle Eastern researchers report on. This may be interesting to my classmates because it details how women have led a resistance against violence, which is a cause that is highly publicized in our own country at the present.