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are blind to your past which never leaves you, to smell and sense what’s being done to me now by you. Now, dilatory, attritional so that the past is climate change and not a massacre, so that the present never ends. But I’m closer to you than you are to yourself and this, my enemy friend, is the definition of distance. Oh don’t be indignant, watch the video, I’ll send you the link in which you cleanse me item after limb thrown into the street to march where my catastrophe in the present is still not the size of your past: ....
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March 5, 2021 at 10:53 am Amidst the harsh, rugged environment of Baqa a refugee camp in Jordan a Palestinian apprentice seamstress runs her hands across rolls of velvet. Hands that speak of a decaying spirit and up until now have only witnessed the collective loss of the past. You cannot imagine anything beautiful in this camp, says Palestinian author Huzama Habayeb. Velvet represents everything these women love, everything they long for and everything they yearn for in this life. And so Huzama s third novel Velvet is named after the luxury material in which protagonist Hawwa finds her escape from the unforgiving daily life of the camp and a husband who, like her father once did, beats her regularly. ....
Connecting Literature: Palestinian Voices Across The Cultural Divide Published December 29th, 2020 - 12:23 GMT Palestine Writes Festival (Twitter) Highlights There is a long and rich history of examples” she continued, “spanning political, guerrilla, cultural, material and rhetorical solidarity.” A Room of One’s Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929. Here she argues that a woman requires a room of her own and money if she is to write good books. More recently, her notion has been debunked by women of color, in particular the Muskogee poet Joy Harjo, who claims that for her, the “world begins at a kitchen table.” It is there that life abounds, thereby becoming a space where she best writes. ....