What it Means to be Palestinian

Dina Matar is lecturer in Arab Media and International Political Communication at the Centre for Film and Media Studies, the School of Oriental and African Studies. She was formerly a foreign correspondent and editor covering the Middle East, Europe and Africa. She is also a co-editor of the 'Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication'.

• IntroductionChapter One: Palestine as a Landscape and a People: On the road to Nakba Chapter Two: Living the Nakba: In the Perilous Territory of not-BelongingChapter Three: Between Romance and TragedyChapter Four: Living the Revolution: Living the OccupationChapter Five: Children of the Stone: Living the first intifadaEpilogueBibliographyIndex

'These are accounts of ordinary people who have striven through the harrowing experience of war and futile negotiation, searching for a life and a place that the rest of the world will respect and protect.' - Jon Snow; '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