Decolonizing the Palestinian Mind is a sharp critique of the Oslo surrender, the Israeli apartheid system established in the name of a two-state solution, and the tokenization of Palestinian struggle and emancipation. It calls for a radical change in consciousness in a new period of unprecedented pressure on Palestinian culture, identity, and futures.

Drawing on the works of Edward Said, Ghassan Kanafani, Paolo Freire, Rosa Luxemburg, and Antonio Gramsci, Haidar Eid provides an in-depth look at how alternative political programs and struggles can offer prospects for a just peace./p

Haidar Eid is an associate professor of postcolonial and postmodern literature at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza, Palestine. He has published papers on cultural studies and literature in a number of journals and books. He has also written widely on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is a policy advisor with Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network, on the advisory board of The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), and a member of the Board of Directors of BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights. He is the author Worlding (Post)modernism: Interpretive Possibilities of Critical Theory and Countering the Palestinian Nakba: One State for All.

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Victoria Brittain has worked as a journalist in Saigon, Algiers, Angola, and Palestine, among many places in the Global South, for UK, French, and US media. She has written books and plays about Southern Africa, Guantanamo, and the impact of the war on terror on women. Her most recent book is Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri.

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