A map of absence : an anthology of Palestinian writing on the Nakba /: an anthology of Palestinian writing on the Nakba. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Atef Alshaer.
• Editors: Alshaer, Atef
• Contents: Introduction -- My homeland ; Red Tuesday / Ibrahim Tuqan -- A present for the holiday / Ghassan Kanafani -- The martyr ; The Aqsa Mosque / Abdelrahim Mahmoud -- We will return / Abdelkarim Al Karmi -- Man and his alarm clock / Samira Azzam -- Hunters in a narrow street ; In the deserts of exile / Jabra Ibrahim Jabra -- The secret life of Steed, the pessoptimist / Emile Habibi -- On his experience of the Nakba ; Jerusalem revisted / Edward Said -- To our land ; At a train station that fell off the map ; On this earth ; I am from there ; Standing before the ruins of al-Birweh / Mahmoud Darwish -- So what if ; The end of a discussion with a prison guard ; Kafr Qassim ; Travel tickets ; Persona non grata / Samih Al-Qassim -- Hamza ; Labour pains ; The deluge and the tree ; Call of the land / Fadwa Tuqan -- I call to you ; We shall remain ; On the trunk of an olive tree / Tawfiq Zayyad -- "NO!" ; The vinegar cup / Muin Bseiso -- Without a passport ; Against / Rashid Hussein -- Under the open sky / Ramzy Baroud -- Mimesis ; Immune ; Sleeping trees ; Still life / Fady Joudah -- Hadeel's song ; From the diary of an almost-four-year-old / Hanan Ashrawi -- On Nakba Day / Sayed Lashua -- Fifty years on / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- Out of time / Adania Shibli -- Martyr / Zuheir Abu Shayeb -- Nothing more to lose / Najwan Darwish -- Children ; I'm a destitute woman ; Return / Maya Abu-Al-Hayyat -- Nakba ; A poem for Gaza / Remi Kanazi -- Jiddo / Toufic Haddad -- The drone eats with me / Atef Abu Saif -- Schizophrenia ; How I became... / Massacre / Ghayath Almadhoun -- Being a refugee ; The last of the line of refugee descendants ; Cracket skin / Ashraf Fayadh -- Resist, my people, resist them ; A poet behind bars / Dareen Tatour -- Poetry of resistance ; Palestine from the sky ; We weren't supposed to survive by we did / Amira Sakalla -- About the contributors -- Credits.
• Publisher Details: London : Saqi Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 892.708095694; Arab-Israeli conflict -- Literary collections; Arabic literature -- Palestine -- Translations into English
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780863569951
• Related ISBNs: 9780863569906
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