3 Quotes & Sayings By Refaat Alareer

Dr. Refaat Alareer is a Palestinian writer and historian. He holds a PhD in Arabic Literature from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He taught at the University of Jaffa and at Birzeit University in the West Bank. Dr Read more

Alareer's most recent book is "The United States Economy: A History (13th edition)" (John Wiley & Sons, 2013). His previous books include: "The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History" (Routledge, 2007); "The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Ideological Perspectives" (Routledge, 2002); and "The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Historical Perspectives (2nd edition)" (Routledge, 2003).

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There's a Palestine that dwells inside all of us, a Palestine that needs to be rescued: a free Palestine where all people regardless of color, religion, or race coexist; a Palestine where the meaning of the word "occupation" is only restricted to what the dictionary says rather than those plenty of meanings and connotations of death, destruction, pain, suffering, deprivation, isolation and restrictions that Israel has injected the word with. Refaat Alareer
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Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love our homeland even more because of the story. Refaat Alareer