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Have you ever tried to look at a window from the land of fantasy, and push your man inside it to coordinate with it to a world from which your soul derives breathtaking luster, and you wish to get lost inside it and to be one of its characters, and help overcome its impurities to make it maintain the splendor of its simplicity and beauty.. Would you leave him if you had the chance? Will you be able to come back! Between the world of dreams and reality, she finds herself forced to live a life that was written for her thousands of years before her birth.. As for him, it is enough for him that he met her. Enjoy the story of the Moon Kingdom in a twist on history, politics, and romantic comedy.
Under the Israeli occupation of the '70s and '80s, writers in Gaza had to go to considerable lengths to ever have a chance of seeing their work in print. Manuscripts were written out longhand, invariably under pseudonyms, and smuggled out of the Strip to Jerusalem, Cairo or Beirut, where they then had to be typed up. Consequently, fiction grew shorter, novels became novellas, and short stories flourished as the city's form of choice. Indeed, to Palestinians elsewhere, Gaza became known as 'the exporter of oranges and short stories'. This anthology brings together some of the pioneers of the Gazan short story from that era, as well as younger exponents of the form, with ten stories that offer glimpses of life in the Strip that go beyond the global media headlines; stories of anxiety, oppression, and violence, but also of resilience and hope, of what it means to be a Palestinian, and how that identity is continually being reforged; stories of ordinary characters struggling to live with dignity in what many have called 'the largest prison in the world'.
Have you ever tried to look at a window from the land of fantasy, and push your man inside it to coordinate with it to a world from which your soul derives breathtaking luster, and you wish to get lost inside it and to be one of its characters, and help overcome its impurities to make it maintain the splendor of its simplicity and beauty.. Would you leave him if you had the chance? Will you be able to come back! Between the world of dreams and reality, she finds herself forced to live a life that was written for her thousands of years before her birth.. As for him, it is enough for him that he met her. Enjoy the story of the Moon Kingdom in a twist on history, politics, and romantic comedy.
Attacks on the Press -- Contents -- Introduction: The New Face of Censorship -- 1. Where I've Never Set Foot -- 2. From Fledgling to Failed -- 3. A Loyal Press -- 4. What Is the Worst-Case Scenario? -- 5. Thwarting Freedom of Information -- Case in Point -- 6. Disrupting the Debate -- 7. Discredited -- 8. Chinese Import -- 9. Willing Accomplice -- 10. Edited by Drug Lords -- 11. Self-Restraint vs. Self-Censorship -- 12. Connecting Cuba -- 13. Supervised Access -- 14. Fiscal Blackmail -- 15. Right Is Might -- 16. Eluding the Censors -- 17. Zone of Silence -- 18. Being a Target -- 19. Fighting for the Truth -- Index -- EULA
This is Gaza – a place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture and industry. A place now utterly devastated, its entire population displaced by a seemingly endless onslaught, its heritage destroyed. Daybreak in Gaza is a record of an extraordinary place and people, and of a culture preserved by the people themselves. Vignettes of artists, acrobats, doctors, students, shopkeepers and teachers offer stories of love, life, loss and survival. They display the wealth of Gaza's cultural landscape and the breadth of its history. Daybreak in Gaza humanises the people dismissed as statistics. It stands as a mark of resistance to the destruction and as a testament to the people of Gaza.
A powerful portrait of the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time, from the director of Human Flow In the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his collaborators interviewed more than 600 refugees, aid workers, politicians, activists, doctors, and local authorities in twenty-three countries around the world. A handful of those interviews were included in the film. This book presents one hundred of these conversations in their entirety, providing compelling first-person stories of the lives of those affected by the crisis and those on the front lines of working to address its immense challenges. Speaking in the...
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