Artistic work is a proof of the rejection of ordinary laws—that is to say, the laws of custom—for the discovery of new laws that may open the door to a new language. The Arab world has been frozen for more than a hundred and fifty years; if the Palestinian revolution does not give artists opportunities to create, this will be a great loss. To achieve their goals, these artists will employ the methods of all people, the methods they can use. So the only schools, the only rules that exist, are those which must be destroyed and replaced by new rules. The artist is weak, and it is the duty of the revolution to protect him even in the sphere of the mistakes he makes—but at the same time he is one of the most powerful weapons of revolution. — Jean Genet, “The Palestinians,” Journal of Palestine Studies 3, no. 1 (1973), 34.