Tahrir Hamdi is Professor of Decolonial Studies at Arab Open University, Jordan. She is on the editorial board of several prestigious journals and has published widely on resistance literature.

With elegant prose and insightful ideas, Tahrir Hamdi has written a theoretical work that will be of interest to students and scholars of Palestine and Middle East studies and Arabic literature. However, because she emphasizes that transformation of theory into action, her book belongs on the shelf of everyone who is participating in the solidarity movement, partly because she thoroughly explains what it means to act in solidarity but also because her prose counters defeatist attitudes with a blueprint for victory.

• IntroductionList of Figures1. The Restless Spirit: Palestine Theorized2. Exile is the World Inside: the Poetry of Resistance and Solidarity3. Writing Self, Writing Nation in the Memoir and the Novel: Palestine Narrated4. Writings on the WallConclusion. Continuing the Conversation: Palestine, a Living Cause

Tahrir Hamdi is Professor of Decolonial Studies at Arab Open University, Jordan. She is on the editorial board of several prestigious journals and has published widely on resistance literature.

With elegant prose and insightful ideas, Tahrir Hamdi has written a theoretical work that will be of interest to students and scholars of Palestine and Middle East studies and Arabic literature. However, because she emphasizes that transformation of theory into action, her book belongs on the shelf of everyone who is participating in the solidarity movement, partly because she thoroughly explains what it means to act in solidarity but also because her prose counters defeatist attitudes with a blueprint for victory.

• IntroductionList of Figures1. The Restless Spirit: Palestine Theorized2. Exile is the World Inside: the Poetry of Resistance and Solidarity3. Writing Self, Writing Nation in the Memoir and the Novel: Palestine Narrated4. Writings on the WallConclusion. Continuing the Conversation: Palestine, a Living Cause

Tahrir Hamdi is Professor of Decolonial Studies at Arab Open University, Jordan. She is on the editorial board of several prestigious journals and has published widely on resistance literature.

With elegant prose and insightful ideas, Tahrir Hamdi has written a theoretical work that will be of interest to students and scholars of Palestine and Middle East studies and Arabic literature. However, because she emphasizes that transformation of theory into action, her book belongs on the shelf of everyone who is participating in the solidarity movement, partly because she thoroughly explains what it means to act in solidarity but also because her prose counters defeatist attitudes with a blueprint for victory.

• IntroductionList of Figures1. The Restless Spirit: Palestine Theorized2. Exile is the World Inside: the Poetry of Resistance and Solidarity3. Writing Self, Writing Nation in the Memoir and the Novel: Palestine Narrated4. Writings on the WallConclusion. Continuing the Conversation: Palestine, a Living Cause