From Saga Hamdan’s ‘Red Light’
This is part of a longer story, “Maryam,” (2022) by Palestinian author Saga Hamdan.
This is part of a longer story, “Maryam,” (2022) by Palestinian author Saga Hamdan.
This excerpt comes from pages 34–37 of Saga Hamdan’s 2024 debut novel This Stone is Mine (هذا الحجر لي), a story of love and loss between Gaza and Jenin.
A beautifully tender, skin-of-ice-on-water short fiction by Saga Hamdan, translated by Ibtihal Rida Mahmood.