Podcast: Ep. 43. What Does Memory Have to do with Justice? (Focus: Palestine: A Map of Absence, Ed. By Atef AlShaer)

On this journey, I’m joined by Alia and Safiya as we discuss

• Reading iconic poems in translation
• Literature as second-hand experience of traumatic and painful events
• Memory and connection in Palestinian writing and experience
• Establishing justice as a fundamental purpose in Palestine and the world

Book in focus: A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba, ed. by Atef Alshaer (Palestine)

Find Safiya on Instagram @safiyareads
Contact Alia by email at elbak002 [at] gmail.com 
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Special thanks to Saqi Books for providing a digital copy of this book.

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Palestinian book suggestions

• Velvet (original title: مخمل) by Huzama Habayeb - Maya, @mayaabualhayy
• Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa - Yazeed, @yazeeds.reads
• The Woman from Tantoura (original title: الطنطورية) by Radwa Ashour - Yara, @yara_reads
• Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa (Arabic trans. title: بينما ينام العالم) - Zenah, @mattarx

Other episodes mentioned

• Are You What They Say You Are? (Algeria/France)

Other books mentioned

• Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry ed. by Abdullah Al-Udhari
• Mornings in Jenin, by Susan Abulhawa
• Sharon and my Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries by Suad Amiry

Related resources (not endorsements) 

• Al-Nakba Special Series - Al-Jazeera English (video series, also available in Arabic here)
• هل سألت نفسك: كيف بدأت قضية فلسطين (video - in Arabic)
• حرب النكبة فلسطين 1948 War (video - in Arabic)
• ما هي اتفاقية أوسلو وعملية السلام 1993 ؟ (video - in Arabic)​
• كل ما تحتاج أن تعرفه عن اتفاقية أوسلو 1993 وعملية السلام في فلسطين (video - in Arabic)
• Balfour Declaration (article)
• Christian Zionism in the United Kingdom (Wikipedia page)