The Gothic ghost story, in which past wrongs manifest as hauntings, is a genre that has undoubted resonance and power when it comes to exploring the injustices and unreconciled legacies of colonialism. In Muayad Alayan’s A House in Jerusalem, the ghostly presence emerges from the Nakba, the catastrophic events of 1948 that saw the violent […]
Read MoreNo place like home: my bitter return to Palestine
At 22 years old, I set foot in my country for the first time. My parents were Palestinian, but in 1970 they had gone into exile. We had been living in Cyprus after fleeing the war in Lebanon. Now, a new era of reconciliation had arrived.
Read MoreRemembering the Nakba through Palestinian literature
“Remembering the Nakba of 1948 is therefore an act of protest and resistance. … Literature extends the resistive act of remembering and creates a sense of community through the narration of memory.” https://mondoweiss.net/2020/05/memory-as-resistance/ Facts about the Palestinian Nakba https://medium.com/@thepalestineproject/quick-facts-the-palestinian-nakba-of-1948-3c715629b010 568
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