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"What It Means to be Palestinian" is a narrative of narratives, a collection of personal stories, remembered feelings and reconstructed experiences by different Palestinians whose lives were changed and shaped by history. Their stories are told chronologically through particular phases of the Palestinian national struggle, providing a composite autobiography of Palestine as a landscape and as a people. The book begins with the 1936 revolt against British rule in Palestine and ends in 1993, with the Oslo peace agreement that changed the nature and form of the national struggle. It is

Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future, by Gil Z. Hochberg. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 208 pages. $94.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. Networked Refugees: Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age, by Nadya Hajj. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021. 146 pages. $34.95 paper.

The Palestine Liberation Organization has been extensively studied and researched in a variety of disciplines and perspectives. However, little attention has been paid to its media and/or political communication strategies that went hand in hand with its political evolution and aims from 1969 to 1982, a period marked by flux and political uncertainty as well intensive PLO state-building processes. This paper seeks to partially fill the gap by addressing political communication not only as a fundamental political practice and strategy but also as an arena in which political elites compete to achieve media legitimacy and ensure support for their objectives and ideologies. Drawing on archival research of the PLO mass media platforms during the period under review, primary sources and interviews with former PLO media personnel, the paper begins with an overview of the PLO's investment in mass media institutions and other cultural genres before discussing its political communication strategy and its aims in the period from 1969 to 1982. The paper then addresses how the late PLO chairman Yasser Arafat actively competed in the political communication arena to achieve media legitimacy and secure public consent for the PLO's ideologies and aims. In doing so, the paper does not suggest Arafat achieved total domination of the political communication space nor that other guerrilla leaders, Arab and other actors did not compete in this arena. Rather, the approach emphasizes the relationship between political agency and structure during moments of flux and change, thus complementing dominant approaches in political communication research that focus on framing and discourse.

This article addresses the Syrian regime's strategic communication as a practice of politics that runs hand in hand with its repressive political, social, and military tactics to control the political sphere, win the ongoing civil war in the country, and violently suppress its opponents since the Syrian uprising began in March 2011. Drawing on primary and secondary sources as well as discourse analysis of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's main speeches since 2011, the article suggests that this strategy is a dynamic practice of politics that combines the mobilization of media and cultural genres as technologies of power with a political language rooted in the Ba'ath Party's ideology to legitimate the regime's war against its opponents, ensure support, and summon citizens as political subjectivities.

This paper is concerned with how migrants address the politics of recognition from below, or through the politics of theeveryday. It uses a synthesis of theory and original empirical material to address questions of identity, belonging, recognition and participation through their everyday
use of various news media. In doing so, it addresses the contexts under which minority and/or diasporic group members may adopt claims to cultural distinctiveness and group rights to challenge perceptions of exclusion from and misrepresentation in the political public sphere, arguing that
these politics may be understood as contestations of and negotiations over the right to the public sphere.

Introduction: Approaches to Narrating Conflict in Palestine and Lebanon: Practices, Discourses and Memories / Dina Matar and Zahera Harb. -- Practices. Just a Few Small Changes: The Limits of Televisual Palestinian Representation of Conflicts within the Transnational 'Censorscape' / Matt Sienkiewicz ; Mediating Internal Conflict in Lebanon and its Ethical Boundaries / Zahera Harb ; Negotiating Representation, Re-making War: Transnationalism, Counter-hegemony and Contemporary Art from Post-Taif Beirut / Hanan Toukan ; Narratives in Conflict: Emile Habibi's al-Waqa'i al-Ghariba and Elia Suleiman's Divine Intervention / Refqa Abu-Remaileh. -- Discourses. Islam in the Narrative of Fatah and Hamas / Atef Alshaer ; Al Manar: Cultural Discourse and Representation of Resistance / Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso ; The Battle over Victimhood: Roles and Implications of Narratives of Suffering in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / Kirkland Newman Smulders ; The 'I Love..' Phenomenon in Lebanon: The Transmutations of Discourse, its Impact on Civil Society, the Media and Democratization / Carole Helou. -- Memories and Narration. Making Sense of War News among Adolescents in Lebanon: The Politics of Solidarity and Partisanship / Helena Nassif ; Narrating the Nakba: Palestinian Filmmakers Revisit 1948 / Nadia Yaqub ; Bearing Witness to Al Nakba in a Time of Denial / Teodora Todorova.