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This article describes the collective and personal memories generated from a cemetery where the dead of the Palestinian Revolution in Lebanon are buried. Previous studies of the revolution have focused on the historical process whereby the Palestinians living in refugee camps participated in the revolution: Many camp residents took weapons to fight for their return to the land of Palestine in the 1970s. This raises the following research question: How have the dead of the Palestine Revolution been recollected and commemorated by both the Palestinian leadership and people?
This article examines the Palestinian Martyrs’ Cemetery near Shatila Camp in Beirut, because this cemetery is the burial place of many national heroes and the site of commemorative practices to honor all the martyrs. Recollecting and commemorating the martyrs connects visitors to the land of Palestine as their own true root.
One of these Palestinian martyrs buried in this cemetery is Majid Husayn Attie (Mājid Ḥusayin ‘Aṭīya). Retelling Majid’s life history, his son also recollected the resistance from the perspective of a familial martyr. This paper concludes that the grave is the notion that connects collective and personal death, and collective and personal memory.
