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‘The People are Missing’: Palestinians in Kuwait

Author： Al-Nakib Mai  

Publisher： Edinburgh University Press

ISSN： 1755-1684

Source： Deleuze Studies, Vol.8, Iss.1, 2014-02, pp. : 23-44

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Abstract

This paper explores the effects of the Iraqi invasion on the Palestinian community in Kuwait. Specifically, it considers Gilles Deleuze's notion of the ‘missing people’ in relation both to the Palestinians deported after the 1991 Gulf War and to the majority of Kuwaitis who have not acknowledged the effects of this disappearance on either the Palestinians or themselves. The first section revisits the circumstances surrounding the deportation of approximately 380,000 Palestinians from Kuwait, while the second considers what was lost as a result. The final section proposes an ‘ethics of the missing’ as a possible means to engage and transform some of the ensuing problems.

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