Sahar Khalifeh’s ‘Free’
In this excerpt from Sahar Khalifeh’s ‘A Novel for My Story,’ by turns playful and serious, the novelist describes the moment she freed herself from her marriage and other people’s expectations of what her life could be.
Sahar Khalifeh
An Excerpt from Sahar Khalifeh’s ‘A Novel for My Story’
Sahar Khalifeh’s روايتي لروايتي appeared in 2018, long after she was established as one of the great novelists of her generation, one who painted complex portraits of Palestinian society in […]
Novelist Mohammed Hanif on the Re-release of Sahar Khalifeh’s Classic ‘Wild Thorns’
“Wild Thorns is an ambulance ride of a book, complete with a red light and blaring siren. It’s urgent and essential.”
MENAWA Reading Group: ‘Passage to the Plaza’ by Sahar Khalifeh
Join MENAWAPoco’s May 2022 virtual book discussion, of Sahar Khalifeh’s ‘Passage to the Plaza’ (tr. Sawad Hussain) at 5pm UK time.
Sahar Khalifeh: ‘I Am A Committed Writer, Or Maybe I Am An Obsessed Writer’
“I am a committed writer or maybe I am an obsessed writer. I am obsessed by occupation because I live it. I witness the atrocities of occupation. I witness and live through those atrocities and still am living them.”
New from Hoopoe Fiction, An Excerpt of ‘My First & Only Love’
“Spies were everywhere.”
Aida Bamia on Why ‘My First and Only Love’ Was Such An Emotional Translation Experience
” This novel was the most emotional for me to translate, as it also marked the end of a comfortable childhood for me and my siblings, and the beginning of a life in exile.”
‘Tight Spaces’: Bulaq on ‘Bab as-Saha,’ ‘Nos Richesses,’ and Quarantine
Our forty-seventh episode — “Tight Spaces” — talks about the ups and downs of recent online book events, as well as two novels that have recently appeared in English.
Cover Reveal: Sahar Khalifeh’s ‘Bab al-Saha’ is ‘Passage to the Plaza’
Khalifeh’s classic novel is forthcoming next February 15 from Seagull Books in Sawad Hussain’s translation as “Passage to the Plaza.”
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