Introduction : Palestine as metaphor -- Souffles-Anfas : Palestine and the decolonization of culture -- Transcolonial hospitality : Kateb Yacine's experiments in popular theater -- The transcolonial exotic : allegories of Palestine in Ahlam Mosteghanemi's Algerian trilogy -- Portrait of an Arab Jew : Albert Memmi and the politics of indigeneity -- Abrahamic tongues : Abdelkebir Khatibi, Jacques Hassoun, Jacques Derrida -- Edmond Amran el Maleh and the cause of the other -- Epilogue : Palestine and the Syrian intifada.