This is not a border : reportage & reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
2017
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Main title:
This is not a border : reportage & reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature / edited by Ahdaf Soueif & Omar Robert Hamilton.
Imprint:
New York ; Sydney : Bloomsbury, 2017.
Collation:
x, 340 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"Celebrating the tenth anniversary of PalFest ... a collection of essays, poems, and sketches from some of the world's most distinguished artists responding to their experiences at this unique festival"--Page 4 of cover.
Contents:
Introduction / Adhaf Soueif -- Welcome / Mahmoud Darwish -- Where does Palestine begin? / Yasmin El-Rifae -- The Gaza suite : Gaza / Suheir Hammad -- Jerusalem / Adhaf Soueif -- Draw your own conclusions / J.M. Coetzee -- Three encounters on the West Bank / Mercedes Kemp -- Through the looking-glass / Adam Foulds -- Sleeping in Gaza / Najwan Darwish -- Once upon a Jeusalem / Susan Abulhawa -- Permission to enter / Jeremy Harding -- Privatising Allenby / Suad Amiry -- Allenby border crossing / Sabrina Mahfouz -- Qalandia / Gillian Slovo -- After ten years / John Horner -- Diary / Brigid Keenan -- India and Israel : an ideological convergence / Pankaj Mishra -- In the company of writers / Kamila Shamsie -- The Gaza suite : Jabaliya / Suheir Hammad -- Letters from Gaza / Atef Abu Saif -- Gaza, from Cairo / Selma Dabbagh -- From the diaspora, part one / Jehan Bseiso -- Darkening the dramaturgy / Omar El-Khairy -- This poem will not end apartheid / Remi Kanazi -- An image / Geoff Dyer -- Poetry and protest / Maath Musleh -- Cold violence / Teju Cole -- The City of David / Ghada Karmi -- The writer's job / William Sutcliffe -- From the diaspora, part two / Jehan Bseiso -- Equality, supremacy and security / Ed Pavlić -- A gift for PalFest / Alice Walker -- Silence is a language / Jeremy Harding -- Drawing PalFest / Muiz -- Diary / Deborah Moggach -- Until it isn't / Remi Kanazi -- Sight / Ru Freeman -- The end of apartheid / Henning Mankell -- What we witnessed / Michael Ondaatje -- Stories from the Armenian Quarter / Nancy Kricorian -- A scramble of authors / Michael Palin -- Bethlehem / Sabrina Mahfouz -- Crucifixion / Nathalie Handal -- Pakistan/Palestine / Mohammed Hanif -- Hebron / Sabrina Mahfouz -- The stranglehold / Victoria Brittain -- The sound of a festival / Chinua Achebe -- South Africa and Israel : a familiar geography / Rachel Holmes -- The Gaza suite : Rafah / Suheir Hammad -- Shujaiyya dust / Molly Crabapple -- Gaza / Sabrina Mahfouz -- A decade of writers' walks / Raja Shehadeh -- Let your lives speak / Linda Spalding -- A bus stop in London / Najwan Darwish -- The scattering / Claire Messud -- How to survive exile / Sabrina Mahfouz -- What we talk about when we talk about Palestine / Jamal Mahjoub -- The Gaza suite : Tel El Hawa / Suheir Hammad -- Exit strategy / China Miéville -- The Gaza suite : Zeitoun / Suheir Hammad -- The end of art is peace / Omar Robert Hamilton.
ISBN:
9781632868848
Dewey class:
915956.94
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
302988
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature | 956.94 THI | Available |