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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.
In London a couple meet at a party. She is Israeli and he
Palestinian. Both are here to escape the politics of their
countries and both want to be alone. Despite that, their
relationship develops and inevitably they have to confront the
politics that, in principle, separates them. Can their relationship
survive? A clever, well-paced novel.
After 17 years, the narrator and his friend, Ali, meet at Heathrow
and slowly remember their past in a Palestinian camp in Lebanon.
Their memories are concentrated on one fatal night when they were
with two other friends for the last time, before tragedy struck.
But for the narrator, a personal tragedy had occurred much earlier?
Like many other Palestinians, both Ali and the narrator had to
leave Lebanon in the mid-1980s, when it became a battleground for
local armies - Ali to America, the narrator to London. But this is
not just a story about suffering, it is also about absurd politics
and violence - about a world where tragedy and comedy co-exist. A
poignant story that lingers long after one has finished it.
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