The main objective of this research was to study racial violence and gender oppression in Sahar Khalifeh’s selected novels of Of Noble Origins (2012), The End of Spring (2007), The Inheritance (2005), The Image, and The Icon and the Covenant (2007). The research also followed a qualitative textual analysis to interpret the colonial confrontation between the Jewish persecutory occupation that represents the colonizers who oppress the Palestinian people, especially the women. Furthermore, gender oppression was interpreted to scrutinize the masculine ideology that marginalizes women in the Palestinian traditional society. Accordingly, three inextricable objectives were formulated in the course of the analysis. The first objective was to ascertain the extent of how the encounter with the Israeli racial violence affects the Palestinian women based on the novels by Sahar Khalifeh. The second objective was to examine how the Palestinian women resist the Jewish occupation in the .....

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