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Sumud: A New Palestinian Reader

Sumud: A New Palestinian Reader

Halasa, Malu
Elgrably, Jordan

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1644214458
ISBN13: 9781644214459
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: Jan 21 2025
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
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 sumūd is often loosely translated as steadfastness or standing fast. It is, above all, a Palestinian cultural value of everyday perseverance in the face of Israeli occupation. Sumūd 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 2021-2024. 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 Application 39, a sci-fi short story about a Dystopian bid for the Olympics;
  • Sara Roy and Ivar Ekeland with The New Politics of Exclusion: Gaza as Prologue, an analysis of Israel's divide and conquer policies of fragmentation;
  • Historian Ilan Pappé with a review of Tahrir Hamdi's book, Imagining Palestine, in which he unpacks the relationship between culture and resistance;
  • Essayist Lina Mounzer with Palestine and the Unspeakable, 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 (1941-2008).

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