[5] This sense of international solidarity can also be found in Palestinian poets' work such as in Mahmoud Darwish's poem Cuban Chants, "And the banner in Cuba..
[3] In a 2003 article published in the Studies in the Humanities journal, Steven Salaita posits a fourth branch made up of English language works, particularly those written by Palestinians in the United States, which he defines as "writing rooted in diasporic countries but focused in theme and content on Palestine.
Susan Abulhawa's book Mornings in Jenin tells the story of a Palestinian family lost their homes during the 1948 war.
[14] In A Rift in Time author Raja Shehadeh explored the relationship between the decline of the Ottoman Empire, British colonialism and Palestinian self-identity in a novel about his great-uncle Najib Nassar.
From among those Palestinians who became Arab citizens of Israel and after the passage of the Citizenship Law of 1952, a school of resistance poetry was born that included poets like Mahmoud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim, and Tawfiq Zayyad.
[19][20] Palestinian poets often write about the common theme of a strong affection and sense of loss and longing for a lost homeland.
[17] In a poem about the Israeli bombing of Lebanon, published in the Palestinian literary magazine al-Karmel, Mahmoud Darwish wrote:[21] Smoke rises from me, I reach out a hand to collect my limbs scattered from so many bodies, besieged from land and sky and sea and language.
The last plane has taken off from Beirut airport and left me in front of the screen to watch with millions of viewers the rest of my death As for my heart, I see it roll, like a pine cone, from Mount Lebanon, to Gaza.
The art of story telling was for a long time part of the cultural life in Arabic speaking countries of the Middle East.