The Independent Personality of the Palestinians and their Arts

Authors : Türkkaya Ataöv

Pages : 71-87

Doi:10.1501/Intrel_0000000088

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Publication Date : 1977-05-01

Article Type : Research

Abstract :The exodus and the dispersal of the Palestinian people after the occupation of their land by the racist Zionist entity could not hinder the tradition of national expression. This expression, linked to the national question, was even developed as a reaction to foreign invasion. No doubt, the Palestinian armed struggle, follovving the Israeli attack in 1967, has caused an explosion of a potential energy not only in terms of military force, but in the realm of culture and arts. Palestinian culture, in the form of poetry, folk tales, popular singing, dancing, national costumes, embroidery, ceramics, carving, glass and metal work or various other forms of expression, is the vivid proof of the existence of a homeland and a people's yearning for it.  
Keywords : Independent Personality, Palestinians, their Arts