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Loading... East Jerusalem Noirby Rawya Jarjoura Burbara (Editor)
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 Heartfelt and heart-wrenching …most of the stories here deal with more contemporary threats faced by Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem. Nuzha Abu Ghosh chronicles the miseries of living under constant surveillance in “The Ceiling of the City.” The agony of negotiating military checkpoints is the focus of “Noble Sanctuary” by Muhammad Shuraim and “Checkpoints of Death” by Nuzha al-Ramlawi. In “Between the Two Jerusalems,” Osama Alaysa recounts the dangers that face Palestinians who, even unwittingly, cross those boundaries unchecked. The simplest tasks, like obtaining health insurance, are impossibly complicated in a city under occupation, as Majid Abu Ghosh illustrates in “This Is Jerusalem.” And owning a home is nearly impossible, as “The Scorpion” by Ibrahim Jouhar, “In an Extraordinary City” by Rahaf al-Sa’ad, and “An Astronaut in Jerusalem” by Iyad Shamasnah all demonstrate. The burden of grief carried by those who live in East Jerusalem is poignant and palpable. Such a sharp focus on the misery of the occupation creates a certain constriction in the range of storylines. But Burbara’s contributors are clearly willing to sacrifice the chance to showcase the color and variety of the ancient city in order to tell a harrowing tale of its current distress. Belongs to Series
FROM THE EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION: 'When you move through the streets of Jerusalem today, you will notice that history surrounds you from all sides. You hear Adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, recited by the muezzin from the Dome of the Rock; you hear the bells of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where the Christians pray, accompanied by the voices of the Jewish worshippers at the Wailing Wall. You are filled with awe and stand helpless to do anything except feel both joy and sadness at the same time. Your feelings mingle, your thoughts get confused, and you peer at the sky waiting for God's mercy and relief... The stories here are varied, and I did not interfere with the writers' content. I asked them to portray the city of Jerusalem as they live it, as they feel it, as they appreciate it, as they fear it, as they want it to be, and as they imagine it in the past, the present, and the future... And now we put the black box in your hands! Kindly open it to reveal the secrets of Jerusale No library descriptions found. |
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It is being simultaneously published with West Jerusalem Noir.
Each book offers new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Stories are written from the perspective of Palestinian writers, translated from
the Arabic.
East Jerusalem Noir is an ARC (Advance Reading Copy) from Akashic Books.
I like the organization/the format of this series of over 100 titles.
A very ‘dark’ cover. A map (always a favorite of mine) which pinpoints the neighborhoods, areas, locations of the stories. A complete Table of Contents. An Introduction which sets the tone of the stories to come and gives us some cultural references to the city, state, country or region.
An About the Contributors section which gives a short bio of the participating authors.
East Jerusalem Noir is edited by Rawya Jarjoura Burbara and translated by Dr. Nazih Kassis.
She writes in the Introduction …….
”The stories are varied, and I did not interfere with the writers’ content. I asked them to portray the city of Jerusalem as they live it, as they feel it, as they appreciate it, as they fear it, as they
want it to be.”
Stories include:
The Ceiling of the City by Nuzha Abu Ghosh and translated by Catherine Cobham
The Scorpion by Ibrahim Jouhar and translated by Sawad Hussain
Between the Two Jerusalems by Osama Alaysa and translated by Raphael Cormack
In an extraordinary city by Rahaf Al-Sa’ad and translated by Nancy Roberts
Fleeing from the Assyrian Soldiers by Ziadd Khadash and translated by Catherine Cobham
City of Love and Loss by Mahmoud Shukair and translated by Catherine Cobham
An Astronaut in Jerusalem by Iyad Shamasnah and translated by Roger Allen
Diary of a Jerusalem Teacher by Rafiqa Othman and translated by Roger Allen
The Sun Still Shines by Dima Al-Samman and translated by Max Weiss
This is Jerusalem by Majid Abu Ghosh and translated by Catherine obham
Noble Sanctuary by Muhammad Shuraim and translated by Marilyn Booth
Mosques, Churches, Falafel, Mujaddara by Jameel Al-Salhout and translated by Roger Allen
Checkpoints of Death by Nuzha Al-Ramlawi and translated by Catherine Cobham
I wish to thank Akashic Books for offering me this ARC in exchange for an unbiased review.
I wish to thank all the authors who, with their stories and references, led me to seek out
historical and cultural information about Palestine. You have led me out of ignorance in many ways.
There is a very emotional and ‘human’ sense of the cultural differences and difficulties when two totally different, opposite cultures and history try to ‘combine’ or even live side-by-side.
I learned that (after Herodotus) the term Palestine came to be used for the entire region which was formerly known as Canaan. It is part of the Fertile Crescent and human habitation there can be traced back to before 10,000 B.C.E.
East Jerusalem Noir has been an excellent Noir experience, an excellent reading experience and a very interesting learning experience as well. ***** (