Introduction

Much has been written about the Nakba and its political ramifications and impact on Palestinians in Arabic and other languages. The majority of the work is mainly concerned either with historical events or attempts at writing back the Palestinian into history against a powerful story of erasure propagated by a Zionist settler project and a myth of a promised land. Having been denied an audience by powerful nations along with the failure of international bodies to grant them rights,“many Palestinian refugees of the Nakba generation told their stories over and over, to their children and to each other” (Abu-Lughod and Sa’di 11). So much of Palestinian history has been negated as Palestinians were often paradoxically seen as the “invisible people” or “citizen strangers” (Said, Culture 20, Robinson 68). ¹