Tag: Palestine
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A Year On: Long Live Palestine
To witness the destruction and cruelty and sheer violence of the last year means that we simply cannot live or think as we did before. Whoever we are today is different to the people we were a year ago. The intensity of violence across the past twelve months is connected to a longer string that…
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Politica Reviews
I try to keep all the reviews and interviews for each book in one place. Politica was released on the 3rd of January and it’s now been out in the world for almost five months. I have had a few events to discuss it publicly and to contextualise some of the fragments that appear in…
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Guernica y Palestina Libre
My latest published piece is the very fragmentary Guernica in Meanjin. For some time now I have been thinking that the last 6 months with Gaza and Palestine require a new language. I keep searching for symbols that will help give me a framework to make sense of what I have witnessed. I wrote Guernica…
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Books I’m Reading
I recently finished In My Past Life I Was Cleopatra by Amal Awad. I wish this book had existed years ago. I felt like it was written for me. It is the first thing I’ve read by Awad but it won’t be the last. I found a copy of Things You May Find Hidden in…
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The Rooster and the Watermelon
I have been thinking about process a lot and structure lately. In fragmented times, is it possible to write a cohesive, linear narrative? For months now, I write and write, and I try to find a thread. The thread largely eludes me but this is to be expected. When I write fiction, I often throw…
Yumna Kassab 