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Palestine + 100: Stories From a Century After the Nakba
| Author: | Basma Ghalayini |
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Comma Press, 2019 |
| Series: | Futures Past: Book 2 |
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1. Iraq + 100 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 -- a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How might this event -- which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes -- reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolation, to shape the country and its people? Will a lasting peace finally have been reached, or will future technology only amplify the suffering and mistreatment of Palestinians?
Covering a range of approaches -- from SF noir, to nightmarish dystopia, to high-tech farce -- these stories use the blank canvas of the future to reimagine the Palestinian experience today. Along the way, we encounter drone swarms, digital uprisings, time-bending VR, peace treaties that span parallel universes, and even a Palestinian superhero, in probably the first anthology of science fiction from Palestine ever.Translated from the Arabic by Raph Cormack, Mohamed Ghalaieny, Andrew Leber, Thoraya El-Rayyes, Yasmine Seale and Jonathan Wright.
WINNER of a PEN Translates Award 2018
Contents:
- Introduction (Palestine + 100) - essay by Basma Ghalayini
- Song of the Birds - short fiction by Saleem Haddad
- Sleep it Off, Dr Schott - short fiction by Selma Dabbagh
- N - short fiction by Majd Kayyal
- The Key - short fiction by Anwar Hamed
- Digital Nation - short fiction by Emad El-Din Aysha
- Personal Hero - short fiction by Abdalmuti Maqboul
- Vengeance - short fiction by Tasnim Abutabikh
- Application 39 - short fiction by Ahmed Masoud
- The Association - short fiction by Samir El-Youssef
- Commonplace - short fiction by Rawan Yaghi
- Final Warning - short fiction by Talal Abu Shawish
- The Curse of the Mud Ball Kid - short fiction by Mazen Maarouf
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