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Review: The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said

A black and white picture of Edward W. Said, the author of The Question of Palestine. (Sophie Bassouls / Getty)
Edward W. Said, the author of The Question of Palestine. (Sophie Bassouls / Getty)

What all Palestinians refer to today as the Palestinian Revolution is not the negative distinction of being unlike others, but a positive feeling of the whole Palestinian experience as a disaster to be remedied, of Palestinian identity as something understandable not only in terms of what we lost but as something we are forging–a liberation from nonentity, oppression, and exile.

page 135, The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said
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