... being uniformly oppressed. Expressed in many forms, the most important genres representing the collective social voice of Palestinians were their poetry and short stories. This voice, which attempts to exemplify solidarity, gains an unrelenting importance because "in part it allowed the poets to express ideas, that especially during the period of the military government, could not have been expressed openly."" 34 ... ...

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