Wasafiri 80: Beautiful Resistance - A Special Issue on Palestine

Issue 80: Winter 2014

Beautiful Resistance: A Special Issue on Palestine

Fiction and Poetry: Susan Abulhawa, Selma Dabbagh and Adania Shibli

Poems by Najwan Darwish, Falastine Dwikat, Nathalie Handal, Suheir Hammad and Remi Kanazi

Interviews with Omar Barghouti, Imraan Coovadia, Rabai al-Madhoun and Gillian Slovo

Essays by Raja Shehadeh, Githa Hariharan, Nancy Kricorian, Sapphire, Linda Spalding and Ed Pavlic

Art Essay on Samia Halaby: Breathing Poetry into a War-torn Landscape

Reviews of William Sutcliffe's The Wall, Lipika Pelham's The Unlikely Settler, Adhaf Soueif's Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed, Kamal Boullata's Palestinian Art: From 1850 to the Present, Ghassan Zaqtan's Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems, Louisa Waugh's Meet Me in Gaza, Kevin Powers's Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting,

Hassan Blasim's The Iraqi Christ, Vahni Capildeo's Utter and Vikram Chandra's Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software

Rachel Holmes
Editorial

Raja Shehadeh
Without Vision We Can Never Get Anywhere

Nancy Kricorian
That Country Beyond Our Reach: Palestinian Fiction Since 1967

Imran Coovadia
An Interview with Rabai al-Madhoun

Githa Hariharan
Seeing Palestine

Avaes Mohammad
Theatre of the Occupied

Sapphire, Linda Spalding and Ed Pavlić
Dispatches from Palfest 2014

Gilian Slovo
An Interview with Omar Barghouti

Najwan Darwish
Poems

Falastine Dwikat
Poems

Nathalie Handal
'The Bethlehem Poems'

Suheir Hammad
Poems: 'Three Sequins'

Remi Kanazi
Poems

Susan Abulhawa
Fiction: Born Into the Wind

Selma Dabbagh
Fiction: The Body of the Father of the Daoud

Adania Shibli
Fiction: Fadwa Touqan Will Do the Tango No More

Claire Messud
Samia Halaby: Breathing Poetry into a War-torn Landscape

Reviews

Bidisha
William Sutcliffe The Wall
Lipika Pelham The Unlikely Settler

Nadia Davids
Adhaf Soueif Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed

Tania Tamari Nasir
Kamal Boullata Palestinian Art: From 1850 to the Present

Fathieh Saudi
Ghassan Zaqtan Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems

Suzanne Joinson
Louisa Waugh Meet Me in Gaza

Dzifa Benson
Kevin Powers Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting
Hassan Blasim The Iraqi Christ

Humaira Saeed
Nile Green and Nushin Arbabzadah, ed Afghanistan in Ink: Literature Between Diaspora and Nation
Atiq Rahimi The Patience Stone

Rebecca Foster
Nihad Sirees The Silence and the Roar
Mahi Binebine Horses of God

Jean Khalfa
Suzanne Césaire The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941-1945), ed. Daniel Maximin
Claudia Jones Beyond Containment, ed. Carole Boyce Davies

Roomy Naqvy
Vahni Capildeo Utter
Moniza Alvi At the Time of Partition
Sujata Bjatt Collected Poems

Amanda Roberts
Suchen Christine Lim The River's Song
W N Herbert and Yang Lian, ed Jade Ladder: Contemporary Chinese Poetry

Joel Found
Belinda Wheeler A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature

Christopher Rollason
Vikram Chandra Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software