In this conversation with ArabLit, Ala Hlehel talks about coming-of-age as a writer in a remote mountain village, the literary spaces that nurture bold writing, and the quiet radicalism of a woman singing with Umm Kulthum in her kitchen.
The award-winning “Seven Letters to Umm Kulthum” follows the story of a Palestinian family from a small, remote village in the Upper Galilee: the parents, Mustafa and Hajer, and their sons, Yazn and Nur. Events in the novel begin to unfold and unravel on December 8, 1987, when the first Palestinian intifada begins.
An exciting new Arabic website launched yesterday, shepherded into being by Palestinian-Israeli author Ala Hlehel and Palestinian-Israel journalist and culture critic Anton Shalhat, Ha’aretz reported. Similar in some ways to […]
