This document summarizes a paper about Palestine as an imaginary homeland. It defines the concept of an imaginary homeland using Edward Said's work on exile and homeland. It then provides a brief history of rule over Palestine from ancient times through the 20th century, noting the rule of various empires and the Muslim conquest in the 7th century. It also discusses ongoing religious conflicts over Jerusalem and geopolitical conflicts between countries like Iran, America, and Israel over Palestine. It concludes by questioning the role of powerful countries and the UN in addressing Israel's occupation and the ongoing suffering of Palestinians.

1. Palestine: As an imaginary Homeland
 Name: Abulhasan Aabedi
 Roll No: 01
 M.A. Sem: 3
 Topic: Palestine: As an imaginary Homeland
 Paper no. 11 Post-Colonial Literature
 Enrollment No: 2069108420180001
 Batch: 2017-19
 Email Id: abediabul@gmail.com
 Submitted To: Department of English MK Bhavnagar
University

2. What is the meaning of Imaginary homeland
 “The imaginary homeland” a collection of essays in
which Rushdie talked about the imaginary
homeland. After his controversial work “satanic
verses” he do not allow to come his homeland India,
so he wrote many diasporic work like “Midnight
Children” and many essay about homeland.
 Imaginary homeland means orient who had been
exiled from their homeland and then they imagined
their homeland for instance the people of Palestine.

3. Orientalism
 In “Orientalism” and “The question of
Palestine”(1979), Edward Said demonstrated that
Foucault’s idea that power operates through system
of knowledge applied to the ways in which authority
was exercised in the colonial world.
 In Said ‘s words, ‘Orientalism’ was a western style of
dominating, restructuring and hving authority over
the orient.

4. History of Palestine
 Assyrians conquered in 722,
 Babylonians took it in 597.
 Achaemendis ruled it until Alexander the great in 330s
BCE,
 Ptolemies and Seleucids in 168 BCE.
 Roman, Byzantium and Sasanian ruled until 629 CE.
 The Muslims conquered Jerusalem in 638 and ruled
until 1099 then Crusaders conquered it and killed
Muslim and Jews. Then the Muslim under saladin took it
back in 1187 CE and allowed Jews to return and Muslim
ruled it until the end of world war-1 altogether for about
1192 years.

5. Conflict between Religions
 Jerusalem is the holy
place for all.
 Conflict between Islam
and Judaism.
 Conflict between Shia
and Sunni.
 Conflict between Iran
and America.

6. Western’s double face

7. Colonized country in post colonial era
 Why America help Israel
occupation?
 Where is human rights?
 Why powerful countries
do not speak against
America? Even people
from the world, support
Palestine.

9. Conclusion
 To wind up, through out my presentation, I want say
that why this kind of country is suffering from illegal
occupation in the era of Globalization. What is the
function of U.N? In addition, I also can say that
America don’t want peace in the world, because of
their profit from weapons they burning various
country through terrorism.
 Power make discourse through knowledge as per
Foucault’s catalogue.