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Ibtisam Azem is a Palestinian novelist and journalist based in New York. Her novel uses a fantastic disappearance to investigate memory, loss and presence. Ghassan Kanafani and Sahar Khalifeh provide anchors for fiction about exile and life under occupation. Adania Shibli, Mahmoud Darwish and Suad Amiry broaden the route through narrative experiment, autobiographical prose and everyday humour.
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The sudden disappearance of all Palestinians exposes conflicts of memory and neighbourly life in Tel Aviv and Jaffa.
Original title: سفر الاختفاء (Sifr al-ikhtifa)
Syracuse University Press · 2019
Translated by Sinan Antoon
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Palestinian refugees undertake a dangerous journey to Kuwait in this collection’s title novella.
Lynne Rienner Publishers
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A resistance fighter’s return home exposes conflict between resistance and the daily need to earn a living.
Four generations of a Palestinian family experience exile, separation and attempts to preserve their bonds.
A contemporary woman attempts to reconstruct a crime against a Bedouin girl committed in 1949.
Poetic prose reconstructs a day in the August 1982 siege of Beirut through memory, coffee and bombardment.
A memoir of Ramallah depicts occupation and curfews with black humour.
A short novel traces a child’s experience of the world through the senses, family and indistinct fears.
A letter written for work begins an epistolary romance and a story of loneliness.
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