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'What It Means to be Palestinian' is a narrative of narratives, a collection of personal stories, remembered feelings and reconstructed experiences by different Palestinians whose lives were changed and shaped by history. Their stories are told chronologically through particular phases of the Palestinian national struggle, providing a composite autobiography of Palestine as a landscape and as a people. _x000D_ _x000D_ The book begins with the 1936 revolt against British rule in Palestine and ends in 1993, with the Oslo peace agreement that changed the nature and form of the national struggle. It is based on in-depth interviews and conversations with Palestinians, male and female, old and young, rich and poor, religious and secular, in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the Occupied Territories. Presented as remembered personal narratives and as social histories, these conversations provide a deep & intimate account of what it means to be Palestinian in the 21st century. _x000D_ _x000D_ 'This book is structural to any understanding of the Palestinian struggle.' - Jon Snow_x000D_ _x000D_ 'Dina Matar's book presents fragments of memory: of self, people and a vanishing landscape from a lost past whose voices ring painfully in the present. This is a book of discovery, conviction and a labour of love that will appeal to a wide readership.' - Yasir Suleiman, Professor of Modern Arabic Studies and Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, King s College, Cambridge

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