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Sumud A New Palestinian Reader
An anthology that celebrates the power of culture in Palestinian resistance, with selections of memoir, short stories, essays, book reviews, personal narrative, poetry, and art.
Includes twenty-five black-and-white illustrations by Palestinian artists.
The Arabic word sumÅ«d is often loosely translated as āsteadfastnessā or āstanding fast.ā It is, above all, a Palestinian cultural value of everyday perseverance in the face of Israeli occupation. SumÅ«d is both a personal and collective commitment; people determine their own lives, despite the environment of constant oppressions imposed upon them.
This anthology spans the 20th and 21st centuries of Palestinian cultural history, and highlights writing from 2021ā2024. The collection of writing and art features work from forty-six contributors including:
The essays, stories, poetry, art and personal narrative collected in SumÅ«d: A New Palestinian Reader is a rich riposte to those who would denigrate Palestiniansā aspirations for a homeland. It also serves as a timely reminder of cultureās power and importance during occupation and war.
Includes twenty-five black-and-white illustrations by Palestinian artists.
The Arabic word sumÅ«d is often loosely translated as āsteadfastnessā or āstanding fast.ā It is, above all, a Palestinian cultural value of everyday perseverance in the face of Israeli occupation. SumÅ«d is both a personal and collective commitment; people determine their own lives, despite the environment of constant oppressions imposed upon them.
This anthology spans the 20th and 21st centuries of Palestinian cultural history, and highlights writing from 2021ā2024. The collection of writing and art features work from forty-six contributors including:
- Dispatches from Hossam Madhoun, co-founder of Gaza's Theatre for Everybody, as he survives the post-October 2023 war on Gaza;
- Novelist Ahmed Masoud with āApplication 39,ā a sci-fi short story about a Dystopian bid for the Olympics;
- Sara Roy and Ivar Ekeland with āThe New Politics of Exclusion: Gaza as Prologue,ā an analysis of Israelās divide and conquer policies of fragmentation;
- Historian Ilan PappĆ© with a review of Tahrir Hamdiās book, Imagining Palestine, in which he unpacks the relationship between culture and resistance;
- Essayist Lina Mounzer with āPalestine and the Unspeakable,ā an offering on the language used to dehumanize Palestinians;
- And poetry by the next generation of poets who have inherited the mantle of the late Mahmoud Darwish (1941ā2008).
The essays, stories, poetry, art and personal narrative collected in SumÅ«d: A New Palestinian Reader is a rich riposte to those who would denigrate Palestiniansā aspirations for a homeland. It also serves as a timely reminder of cultureās power and importance during occupation and war.
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An anthology that celebrates the power of culture in Palestinian resistance, with selections of memoir, short stories, essays, book reviews, personal narrative, poetry, and art.
Includes twenty-five black-and-white illustrations by Palestinian artists.
The Arabic word sumÅ«d is often loosely translated as āsteadfastnessā or āstanding fast.ā It is, above all, a Palestinian cultural value of everyday perseverance in the face of Israeli occupation. SumÅ«d is both a personal and collective commitment; people determine their own lives, despite the environment of constant oppressions imposed upon them.
This anthology spans the 20th and 21st centuries of Palestinian cultural history, and highlights writing from 2021ā2024. The collection of writing and art features work from forty-six contributors including:
The essays, stories, poetry, art and personal narrative collected in SumÅ«d: A New Palestinian Reader is a rich riposte to those who would denigrate Palestiniansā aspirations for a homeland. It also serves as a timely reminder of cultureās power and importance during occupation and war.
Includes twenty-five black-and-white illustrations by Palestinian artists.
The Arabic word sumÅ«d is often loosely translated as āsteadfastnessā or āstanding fast.ā It is, above all, a Palestinian cultural value of everyday perseverance in the face of Israeli occupation. SumÅ«d is both a personal and collective commitment; people determine their own lives, despite the environment of constant oppressions imposed upon them.
This anthology spans the 20th and 21st centuries of Palestinian cultural history, and highlights writing from 2021ā2024. The collection of writing and art features work from forty-six contributors including:
- Dispatches from Hossam Madhoun, co-founder of Gaza's Theatre for Everybody, as he survives the post-October 2023 war on Gaza;
- Novelist Ahmed Masoud with āApplication 39,ā a sci-fi short story about a Dystopian bid for the Olympics;
- Sara Roy and Ivar Ekeland with āThe New Politics of Exclusion: Gaza as Prologue,ā an analysis of Israelās divide and conquer policies of fragmentation;
- Historian Ilan PappĆ© with a review of Tahrir Hamdiās book, Imagining Palestine, in which he unpacks the relationship between culture and resistance;
- Essayist Lina Mounzer with āPalestine and the Unspeakable,ā an offering on the language used to dehumanize Palestinians;
- And poetry by the next generation of poets who have inherited the mantle of the late Mahmoud Darwish (1941ā2008).
The essays, stories, poetry, art and personal narrative collected in SumÅ«d: A New Palestinian Reader is a rich riposte to those who would denigrate Palestiniansā aspirations for a homeland. It also serves as a timely reminder of cultureās power and importance during occupation and war.
