Introduction: Writing Occupied Palestine: Toward a field of Palestinian Communication and Cultural Studies

ABSTRACT This special issue emerged from a belief that Communication journals have long ignored Palestinian voices. A review of all manuscripts published across eleven journals published by the National Communication Association provides unequivocal data supporting that belief. Specifically, prior to this special issue, only twelve articles across these 11 outlets emphasized Palestinian perspectives. In this brief introduction to the special issue, a brief summary of the content of those articles is laid out, and a call for the emergence of a domain of Palestinian Communication and Cultural Studies – founded on an essential commitment to center the question of Palestine through a decolonial lens that values the indigenous and Palestinian voice – is made.