Stillborn in Egypt, Fractured in Palestine
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We spend most of this episode talking about two books: the late Arwa Salih\\u2019s Stillborn, a memoir of and reckoning with her time as a leftist student militant in Egypt in the 1970s; and Rabai al-Madhoun\\u2019s novel Fractured Destinies -- about lives constrained, conflicted and divided in Palestine.
Show notes
- Arwa Salih\\u2019s The Stillborn, tr. the brilliant Samah Salim and published by Seagull Books as part of their \\u201cArab List,\\u201d curated by Hosam Aboul-ela.
- Rabai al-Madhoun\\u2019s International Prize for Arabic Fiction-winning Fractured Destinies (published in Arabic as called Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and the Nakba), tr. Paul Starkey, and extends the universe of Walid al-Dahman who first appeared in IPAF-shortlisted The Lady from Tel Aviv, tr. Elliott Colla.
- The claustrophobia was reminiscent of Mohammed Sabaaneh\\u2019s collection of political cartoons White and Black.
- For books in a constellation around The Stillborn, we mentioned: Waguih Ghali\\u2019s Beer in the Snooker Club, Naguib Mahfouz\\u2019s Adrift on the Nile, tr. Frances Liardet, Youssef Rakha\\u2019s Crocodiles, tr. Robin Moger, and Mohammed Rabie\\u2019s Otared, tr. Moger.
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