{"product_id":"sumud-a-new-palestinian-reader-1644214458","title":"Sumud: A New Palestinian Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1644214458\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Halasa, Malu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn anthology that celebrates the power of culture in Palestinian resistance, with selections of memoir, short stories, essays, book reviews, personal narrative, poetry, and art.Includes twenty-five black-and-white illustrations by Palestinian artists.The Arabic word sumud is often loosely translated as steadfastness or standing fast. It is, above all, a Palestinian cultural value of everyday perseverance in the face of Israeli occupation. Sumud is both a personal and collective commitment; people determine their own lives, despite the environment of constant oppressions imposed upon them.This anthology spans the 20th and 21st centuries of Palestinian cultural history, and highlights writing from 2021-2024. The collection of writing and art features work from forty-six contributors including:Dispatches from Hossam Madhoun, co-founder of Gaza's Theatre for Everybody, as he survives the post-October 2023 war on Gaza; Novelist Ahmed Masoud with Application 39, a sci-fi short story about a Dystopian bid for the Olympics; Sara Roy and Ivar Ekeland with The New Politics of Exclusion: Gaza as Prologue, an analysis of Israels divide and conquer policies of fragmentation; Historian Ilan Pappé with a review of Tahrir Hamdis book, Imagining Palestine, in which heunpacks the relationship between culture and resistance; Essayist Lina Mounzer with Palestine and the Unspeakable, an offering on the language used to dehumanize Palestinians; And poetry by the next generation of poets who have inherited the mantle of the late Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008).The essays, stories, poetry, art and personal narrative collected in Sumud: A New Palestinian Reader is a rich riposte to those who would denigrate Palestinians aspirations for a homeland. It also serves as a timely reminder of cultures power and importance during occupation and war.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52219518583072,"sku":"NEW1644214458","price":17.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91PVZAPjRHL.jpg?v=1787264618","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/sumud-a-new-palestinian-reader-1644214458","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}