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Palestine+100
The first ever anthology of science fiction from Palestine, with the woman herself, its editor!
Basma Ghalayini
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Basma Ghalayini
@BasmaGhalayini
Palestinian translator from Gaza. Edtor of ‘Palestine+ 100’
Manchester, UK
Joined November 2011
- Here’s a little piece that I wrote:
- Here’s a little piece that I wrote: nytimes.com/2021/05/24/opi…
- CALLING ALL PALESTINIAN WRITERS. I’m looking for more science fiction stories (separate to P +100! Different publisher). I can’t say what it’s for just yet. But if you’re a Palestinian writer who fancies a go at a science fiction story DM me! Arabic or English
GIF - This is what you get for putting an anti-apartheid sticker on Marks and Spencer in Manchester #FreePalestine
00:00 - I am very proud to have been a part of the team that created Palestine+100, a unique experience that gave me the opportunity to work with 12 Palestinian writers and 6 translators to produce 12 different stories about life 100 years after Nakba...
- “Thus, the Israeli state continues its war on the Palestinian past through censorship and on the Palestinian present through violence. This gives science fiction a creative potential that has yet to be truly explored: that of creating a new imaginary. “To write, to remember, because one feels a duty to do so can be exhausting, and there's nothing wrong with recognizing that the occupied, the exiled and those in-between can also fail. But even in failure, a way out is possible. By @joeyayoub mangalmedia.net/english//the-f…
- So will we, with @commapressWe'll be at this, first weekend in February - with lots of posters for sale:
- Congrats to Anwar HamedAnwar Hamed's "The Key", written for our SF collection 'Palestine +100' ed. by @BasmaGhalayini, has been longlisted for the @BSFA best short fiction 2019. If you are a member of the British Science Fiction Association, you can vote for Anwar's story here: bit.ly/2QVdbmu
- Replying to @Ochekidoma and @commapressYep and each time they managed to convince the world they’re terrorists; if Hamas were eliminated today, tomorrow it would be Fatah’s fault. Then if they were eliminated it would be the PFLP’s fault, etc. And btw Hamas was a grassroots response to the pre-Oslo occupation of Gaza
- The evolution of Palestinian cuisine haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…
