State of Exception is an artist publication about the connections and conflations between personal and collective identity, memory, and politics. Specifically, this book tackles Palestinian- and Jewish-AmericanÕs complex relationships to Israel-Palestine. The publication links together oral interviews, written stories, amalgamated timelines, digital maps, quotations, and propaganda. Through interviews and family narratives, the artist hopes to add new understandings to the narrow and stereotypical discourse that Palestinians and Jews are represented by. This work is part of a broader artistic and academic research project by the artist, which aims to better understand a series of questions concerning Jewish identity, memory, and nationalism.