
Wasafiri 80: Beautiful Resistance - A Special Issue on Palestine
Issue 80: Winter 2014
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
Contents
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