Democratic Palestine : 28 (ص 39)
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- Democratic Palestine : 28 (ص 39)
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the present open for the perspectives of freedom and human
progress. Under occupation the Palestinian culture preserves
the Arab language and folklore.. aesthetic, democratic and
nationalist values. It transcends to express the experience of
both Palestinians and others fighting colonialism in the world.
It is a Palestinian-universal culture, because it bases itself on
the history of Palestine as well as of all democratic mankind.
Under occupation, Emil Habibi, raises Arab prose to the
most beautiful, sensitive and genuine level it has ever attained;
he writes one of the most imortant and innovative novels in the
history of the Arab novel. Samih Al Qassem conquers the
realms of poetry, the lyrical and the epic, confirming his ex-
istence as one of the most outstanding Arab poets. Salman
Natour writes humorous literature in a creative way. Ali
Mahmoud Taha’s stories become collective national memory.
Asa’d Al Asa’d renders poetry and writing a limitless field of
thought, analysis and provocation. These are no more than
cultural facts directly transformed into political realities. For
the Palestinian, the written word always begins with drawing
his reality and motivating himself. Yet, the word is concretized
as a cultural act only within the context of militant, patriotic
practice.
Now, the people of the stones have redefined culture, or
have restored culture to its authentic basis. If culture is an act
of transformation, of revolution, then those who are throwing
stones are practicing and creating culture in its highest form.
Such action shatters the idealistic, elitist and academic defini-
tion of culture, to proclaim that real culture is human action in
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the struggle for freedom and liberation of the colonized
peoples.
Under repressive regimes, ignorant masses are distinguished
from the educated elite, common language from classical
language, the language of life from that of books, erudite
culture from folklore, the technocrat who monopolizes
knowledge from the common man who monopolizes ig-
norance. The current uprising of the Palestinian people
undermines such dichotomies and lays the foundation of a new
meaning for culture. Culture is not defined as the relation
between the written and the read, the writer and the reader. It
is primarily defined by the cultural action which fights racism,
occupation, colonialism, repression, obscurantism, etc. which
struggles for a new world of genuine values and ideals. In such
a battle, it is impossible to draw a demarcation line between the
writer and the reader, because both are fighting for the same
cause, and because writing can only become realised at the
moment of reading.
Revolutionary cultural authority is not in books, classical
teachings or abstract thought. It is there in the objective reality
which the Palestinian is fighting to change. In this sense,
Palestinian culture in all the occupied Palestinian territories is
a patriotic political action. This Palestinian cultural action
calls for support just like the legitimate Palestinian political
aspirations. Palestinian culture is an essential aspect of the
Palestinian people’s present and future, because it constitutes
the antithesis of the Zionist culture and all other reactionary
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