"The year is 2048, in Palestine. It’s one hundred years after the violent establishment of the state of Israel in 1948—an event known in the Arab world as "the Nakba" or "catastrophe,” forcing more than 700,000 Palestinians to flee their homes."
Drones and Clones: Mapping Palestinian Sci Fi with Lindsey Moore
"I’m very interested in the manipulation of temporality -- or rather, as I’ve suggested, time-space configuration -- that we see in Palestinian SF across different media."
‘Palestine Book Awards’ Announces 2020 Shortlist
The winners are set to be announced in November.
Friday Finds: Lina Mounzer Translates Mazen Maarouf
"We never suspected that the Lion Cub was not, in fact, a lion cub until his bicycle was stolen."
Beshara Doumani, Brown University’s First Mahmoud Darwish Chair
"This chair is the first of its kind at a major research university."
Join Four Online Events in PalREAD’s ‘Re-locating the Map’ Series
"At the next event, Ghayath Almadhoun will be sharing his latest poetry in Arabic, English & German. Those interested in attending should email Ruth.Abou-Rached@fu-berlin.de by Wednesday, June 10."
Pub Day: Adania Shibli’s ‘Minor Detail,’ Tr. Elisabeth Jaquette
"Aside from these, nothing at all, just a great expanse of the arid Negev desert, over which crouched the intense August heat."
Online, Free: 5 by Ghassan Zaqtan, Including Novella ‘Describing the Past’
"To write a memory I gathered a memory / and to green the marshes I sprinkled friends/ over the salt marshes, and was at a loss/ with myself"
Friday Finds: ‘The Appearance of the Dragon, and His Disappearance’
Khidr’s heart was pounding as he stepped into the house. It was almost sunset, and his mom wasn’t usually this late. Was she on an emergency visit to the hospital to see his dad?
On Ghassan Kanafani Day: 5 Online Reads
“Kanafani made me aware of the importance of being part of what is happening in your generation. You cannot be an outsider.”
On Mahmoud Darwish Day, 13 Poems
Here they are the words fluttering in the mind/
There’s a land in the mind with a heavenly name the words carry.
2020’s ‘One Book, Many Communities’ Selection: ‘The Book of Disappearance’
As in previous years, the official hashtag for the campaign is: #lap1book.
