Reading for Palestine presented by the Alliance's Arabic-language network 1/2

MINOR DETAILS, ADANIA SHIBLI
Reading by Anna Akkash (Al Adab Publishing House, Lebanon)

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba―the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people―and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouins in the Negev desert, and among their victims, they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand.
Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder, and becomes fascinated to the point of obsession, not only because of the nature of the crime, but because it was committed exactly twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Adania Shibli masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives of exactly the same length to evoke a present forever haunted by the past.

IN LOVE WITH GAZA, ALAIN JUNION
Translated from French by Saleh Mesbah
Reading by Ahmad Al Qreinawi (Éditions Med Ali, Tunisia)

In Love with Gaza is a lofty message to confront the illegal and unjust war waged by Israel against occupied Palestine. May this philosophical discourse be a support for Palestinian humanity and global humanitarian and political thought. The author considers that this publication represents his rejection of the Western system, starting with the Algerian war and the status of Muslims in France, who have become almost outcasts, and exposes the neo-colonial and anti-human rights forms of colonialism.

THOSE WHO PASS BETWEEN FLEETING WORDS, MAHMOUD DARWISH
Reading by Marwan Adwan (Mamdouh Adwan Publishing House, UAE / Syria)

The poem was published at the height of the First Intifada and shook the Israeli entity and its allies so much that it was banned from circulation and is considered one of Darwish's most powerful poems regarding the occupation of Palestine. The poem is a call for evacuation from the occupied land, and the title phrase spread throughout the text/poem emphasises the implication that the occupation is transient even if it remains in the occupied territories for centuries, and history testifies with vivid examples in the history of the black occupation, that it disappeared after more than a century, it believed that what it practiced was enough to erase the memory of the people and eradicate the memory of their land, but the occupation was false and the people won with their memory and the memory of their land.

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-Reading for Palestine presented by the Alliance's Arabic-language network 2/2
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