Books that Open Worlds: A Palestinian Reader’s Journey
“Ultimately, the arrival of Asad’s Secret in English is as much an act of preservation as it is an act of translation.”
Reviews
‘Welcome to Hell:’ On Mohammad Sabaaneh’s Latest Graphic Novel
Since 2002, the Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh has been building a visual archive of Palestinian resistance.
In the Details: Masks, Memory, and Narrative Defiance
“A Mask the Color of the Sky” practices what it clearly laid out: using literature to engage obsessively with colonial details, to challenge them, and to insist on a Palestinian narrative.
Memories of Diminishment
On a review that nearly didn’t happen.
Maria Douaihy: ‘The Play is Everything’
“With Yehia, the play is everything. So, we make sure that sets, costumes and props fit in one car. This way we are ready to perform at short notice.” – Maria Douaihy on “Qornet el Bayda.”
‘On the Back of Restless Winds’
In his 2015 autobiography, A Time of Wind, Anxiety, and Freedom (أزمنة الريح والقلق والحرية ), Sudanese scholar Dr. Hayder Ibrahim Ali offers a rare and insightful account of Sudan’s intellectual and political life.
Lamia Ziadé’s ‘Rue de Phénicie’
Lebanese artist and writer Lamia Ziadé’s fifth illustrated book for adults, Rue de Phénicie, (Phoenicia Street), is a work of intellectual rigor and personal honesty. It’s a story that begins with finding hedonistic joy in Paris grows progressively more complicated by her excavations of the past and grappling with the present.
’48 kg’: Creating Life from a Desire to Diminish and Fade Away
Gaza-based Palestinian writer Husam Maarouf responds to Batool Abu Akleen’s ’48 kg.’
Songs of the Unspeakable
When can loss that never ends be said to have happened? When will absence finally finish arriving? Who is the self if left partial, displaced from identity to be found neither here nor there? And if loss defines us, when may we be ourselves?