Summary
Author of Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (2008), a teacher of English literature in the United States whose scholarly work concerns language and politics in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, and a proponent of the One-state solution (Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, PDF p.30-33).
Details
- Born in Washington; Palestinian mother, Lebanese father; grew up in Beirut in a Christian family in a largely Muslim neighbourhood; returned to the United States for his final year of high school and was educated at American universities (PDF p.31).
- First saw Palestine across the Dead Sea as a child and learned its school-map name, Filastin al-Muhtalla (Occupied Palestine), in Beirut (PDF p.29).
- “What draws me to Palestine, then, is neither nationalism nor patriotism, but my sense of justice, my refusal to remain silent in the face of injustice” (PDF p.32).
- The dedication is “For Ussama and Karim, my brothers” (PDF p.17).
Related pages
Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, Alice Walker, One-state solution