Abstract
The Palestinian Christian journalist Najib Nassar penned the first book in Arabic on Zionism, entitled Zionism: Its History, Objective, and Importance.1 It warns Arabs about the menace posed by the Zionist enterprise. Interestingly enough, it concludes with Nassar’s observation that what Palestine needs in order to mount a serious opposition to Zionism is men such as the Zionist leader Theodore Herzl, “sincere leaders like Herzl who will forget their private interests in favor of the public good ... we have many men like Herzl; all they lack is realization of their own abilities, and the courage to take the first step. Let such men appear, and not hesitate, and the circumstances will favor them, for men’s ideas have matured and we are ready.”2
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See Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Conciousness (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), p. 125.
Adil al-Usta, Al-Yahud, fi al-Adab, al-Filastini bayu1913–1987 (Jerusalem: Ittihad al-Kuttab al-Filastiniyyin, 1992), p. 16.
Wadi al-Bustani, Diwan al-Filastiniyyat (Beirut: n. p. 1946), p. 85; al-Usta, Al-Yahud, p. 18.
Salma Khadra Jayyusi (ed.), Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992), p. 674.
The novel was published in 1920 in Jerusalem but is now unavailable. It is discussed in some detail in Nasir al-Din al-Asad, Khalil Baydas Raid al-Qissa al-Arabiyya al-Haditha fi Filistin (Cairo: n. p., 1962), pp. 64–78.
Ibrahim Tuqan, Diwan Ibrahim Tuqan (Beirut: Dar al-Masira, 1984), pp. 56–66.
Ishaq Musa al-Husayni, Mudhakkirat Dajaja (Cairo: Dar al-Maarif, 1943; 2nd ed. 1967); Memoirs of a Hen, trans. George Kanazi (Toronto: York Press, 1999).
M. Peled, “Annals of Doom: Palestinian Literature 1917–1948,” Arabica 28 & 29 (1981–1982), p. 162.
Fawaz Turki, The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian Exile (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972), p. 11.
See Fadwa Tuqan, Rihla Saba, Rihla Jabaliyya (Akka: Dar al-Aswar, 1985), trans. Olive Kenny, A Mountainous Journey: An Autobiography (Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf, 1990).
Hanna Ibrahim, “Hikayatan min al-Sijn,” in Ibrahim, Hawajis Yawmiyya (Shafa Amr: al-Shuruq, 1989), pp. 11–19.
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Abdel-Malek, K. (2005). Strangers at Home. In: The Rhetoric of Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-06667-1_4
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