The Social Actor: A Critical Appraisal of the Palestinian Context and its Challenges

Abstract:
This article is based on a critical vision that attempts to highlight the importance of the social actor in the Palestinian context as a whole. It includes basic ideas about the author’s understanding and expectations of all the aspects associated with the role and profession of the social actor as a transforming mechanism of issues in the Palestinian context. It broaches fields of work, specialization, and concentration in viewing individual cases as manifesting a nationwide social phenomenon. If we accept that Palestinian society is vulnerable to psychological setbacks, its recovery, according to Fanon (1972) lies in the resistance against the colonizer.

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Contemporary Arab Affairs, Vol. 11, Number 1-2, pp. 213–234. issn 1755-0912. Electronic issn: 1755-0920. © 2018 by the Centre for Arab Unity Studies. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Reprints and Permissions web page, www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/caa.2018.000013

Bilal Awad Salameh: Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, Bethlehem University.

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