[[{"content_id":"347870","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"114","user_id":"43","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"0","content_title":"Palestine + 100","content_number":"","content_date_event":"2020-11-08 10:59:48","content_summary":"STORIES FROM A CENTURY AFTER THE NAKBA\/ Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers:","content_summary_fill":"1","content_body":"Edited by Basma Ghalayini\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nFeaturing Talal Abu Shawish, Tasnim Abutabikh, Selma Dabbagh, Emad El-Din Aysha, Samir El-Youssef, Saleem Haddad, Anwar Hamed, Majd Kayyal, Mazen Maarouf, Abdalmuti Maqboul, Ahmed Masoud & Rawan Yaghi\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSTORIES FROM A CENTURY AFTER THE NAKBA\r\n\r\nPalestine + 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?\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nCovering 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.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nTranslated from the Arabic by Raph Cormack, Mohamed Ghalaieny, Andrew Leber, Thoraya El-Rayyes, Yasmine Seale and Jonathan Wright.\r\n\r\n ","content_html":"
Edited by Basma Ghalayini<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Featuring Talal Abu Shawish, Tasnim Abutabikh, Selma Dabbagh, Emad El-Din Aysha, Samir El-Youssef, Saleem Haddad, Anwar Hamed, Majd Kayyal, Mazen Maarouf, Abdalmuti Maqboul, Ahmed Masoud & Rawan Yaghi<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n STORIES FROM A CENTURY AFTER THE NAKBA<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n 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?<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n 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.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Translated from the Arabic by Raph Cormack, Mohamed Ghalaieny, Andrew Leber, Thoraya El-Rayyes, Yasmine Seale and Jonathan Wright.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>","content_source":"","content_url":"","content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2020-11-08 10:59:48","content_date_finish":"2020-11-08 10:59:48","content_date_register":"2020-11-08 11:03:50","content_date_last_edit":"2020-11-08 11:03:50","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"0","content_show_related_img":"0","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"1","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"0","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"0","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"2221258768","attach_date_register":"2020-11-08 11:03:24","attach_id":"480705","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"180","attach_img_height":"280","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"1","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"829","visit_date_last":"2024-03-28 18:03:28","attach_title":"BOOK REVIEW","node_title":"Book review","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":131, \"left\":19, \"right\":20}]"}]]