Homeland - Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians
by Staughton Lynd, Alice Lynd and Sam Bahour

Throughout the world Palestinians have often been viewed through narrow prisms of "terrorists" or "victims." This comprehensive collection of oral histories brings to life generations of Palestinians, those living in the occupied territories as well as those in the far-flung exile of the Palestinians, those living in the occupied territories as well as those in the far-flung exile of the Palestinian diaspora.

The editors travelled throughout Israel and the occupied territories to find the multi-generational families living in towns, villages and refugee camps whose voices resonate in Homeland. These are Palestinians who lost their homes in 1948, who grew up as refugees in Jordan or Lebanon after the dispossessions of 1949 or 1967, women battling for their land as well as their rights, former prisoners, farmers, workers, children and great-grandparents.

Homeland poignantly links the people to the land, the attachment to which has created and sustained Palestinian national identity around the world. These are stories of loss, of exile, of remembering.

About the Authors
Staughton Lynd is a noted U.S. labor historian; his books include Nonviolence in America and Labor Law for the Rank and Filer.

Alice Lynd edited We Won't Go: Personal Accounts of War Objectors, and with her husband edited Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers.

Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American businessman from Youngstown, OH; he is the national coordinator of Palestinian-American Youth, and moved to the West Bank after the signing of the Oslo Accords.