Palestine + 100 / edited by Basma Ghalayini.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Publisher: Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing 2022Edition: First Deep Vellum editionDescription: xiii, 222 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781646051403
- 1646051408
- Palestine +100 : stories from a century after the Nakba [Cover title]
- Palestine plus one hundred
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | World Languages Collection | GHALAYIN BASMA | Spanish | Available | 33111010931422 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 - a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How might this event - which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes - reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolation, to shape the country and its people? Will a lasting peace finally have been reached, or will future technology only amplify the suffering and mistreatment of Palestinians?
Covering a range of approaches - from SF noir, to nightmarish dystopia, to high-tech farce - these stories use the blank canvas of the future to reimagine the Palestinian experience today. Along the way, we encounter drone swarms, digital uprisings, time-bending VR, and peace treaties that span parallel universes. Published originally in the United Kingdom by Comma Press in 2019, Palestine +100 reframes science fiction as a place for political justice and the safekeeping of identity.
Anthology.
In English, translated from the Arabic.
Stories by twelve Palestinian writers, written in response to the question: "What might your country look like in the year 2048--a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba?"
Introduction / Basma Ghalayini -- Song of the birds / Saleem Haddad -- Sleep it off, Dr Schott / Selma Dabbagh -- N / Majd Kayyal ; translated by Thoraya El-Rayyes -- The key / Anwar Hamed ; translated by Andrew Leber -- Digital nation / Emad El-Din Aysha -- Personal hero / Abdalmuti Maqboul ; translated by Yasmine Seale -- Vengeance / Tasnim Abutabikh -- Application 39 / Ahmed Masoud -- The Association / Samir El-Youssef ; translated by Raph Cormack -- Commonplace / Rawan Yaghi -- Final warning / Talal Abu Shawish ; translated by Mohamed Ghalaieny -- The curse of the Mud Ball Kid / Mazen Maarouf ; translated by Jonathan Wright.
Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 - a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How might this event - which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes - reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolation, to shape the country and its people? Will a lasting peace finally have been reached, or will future technology only amplify the suffering and mistreatment of Palestinians?