5 Books: Palestinian Short-story Collections
In addition to Out of Time: The Collected Short Stories of Samira Azzam, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman, we also recommend these five collections.
Mazen Maarouf
Friday Finds: Mazen Maarouf on Humor and Violence
“Humor and violence were walking side-by-side in my neighborhood.”
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.”
Friday Finds: New Stories in Translation by Mazen Maarouf and Najwa Binshatwan
Herodotus had been around since 400 BC.
During the Benghazi bombings, he made a run for it.
Launching Today: ‘Palestine +100’
“Ze’ev puts me on display in front of the schoolkids in the playground for half an hour. None of them have ever seen a Palestinian before.”
Friday Finds: Mazen Maarouf’s ‘Portion of Jam’
Dad comes home holding a little plastic portion of jam like the ones they give the patients in the hospital where he works. He holds it up in the air and says, ‘See the jam?’