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Palestine + 100 / edited by Basma Ghalayini.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Publisher: Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing 2022Edition: First Deep Vellum editionDescription: xiii, 222 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781646051403
  • 1646051408
Other title:
  • Palestine +100 : stories from a century after the Nakba [Cover title]
  • Palestine plus one hundred
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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?
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library World Languages Collection GHALAYIN BASMA Spanish Available 33111010931422
Total holds: 0

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?

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