Summary
Former PLO official and representative, and author of Chapter 6 of For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, “Being Palestinian”, in which her Palestinian identity is based exclusively on the General will of the Palestinian people rather than on ethnic, linguistic or national particularisms (For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, PDF p.105-122).
Details
- Nabulsi grew up in Beirut, Washington and Rabat, and lived and worked as a PLO official and representative in the 1970s and throughout the 1980s in Beirut, New York, Tunis, Cyprus, London and other places (PDF p.112).
- She was part of the Palestinian delegation at the Washington talks in 1991-1993, which tried to negotiate elections for Palestinians outside as well as inside Palestine (PDF p.116).
- Her chapter draws on Rousseau’s Social Contract and on the verbatim refugee testimony in Right to Return: Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on Palestinian Refugees (March 2001) (PDF p.117-120).
Related pages
For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, General will, Right of Return