Written by the refugees themselves this highly original anthology of Palestinians forced to live outside their homeland brings together stories of what it means to be exiled reflections on the events that led to being displaced and the raw experience of daily life in a camp.The 11 lives given voice here are unique each an expression of the myriad displacements that war and occupation have forced upon Palestinians since the Nakba of 1948. At the same time they form a collective testament of a people driven from their homes and land by colonial occupation. Each story is singular and each tells the story of all Palestinians.As Edward Said argued in 1984 the object of Israels colonial warfare is not only materialseeking to minimise Palestinian existence as suchampamp8212but is also a narrative project that aims to obliterate Palestinian history as possessed of a coherent narrative direction pointed towards selfdetermination.In these pages Palestinian refugees narrate their own histories.