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11 lives : stories from Palestinian exile / edited and translated by Muhammad Ali Khalidi ; with an introduction by Perla Issa.

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New York : OR Books ; [Beirut, Lebanon] : Co-published with the Institute for Palestine Studies, [2022]

Refugees, Palestinian Arab -- Lebanon.

Exiles -- Palestine.

Palestinian Arabs -- Foreign countries.

9781682193471 (paperback) :

1682193470 paperback

viii, 247 pages ; 21 x 13 cm

Introduction: Writing Palestinian Exile through Autobiographical Essays / Perla Issa -- Graffiti from a Time Gone By / Salem Yassin -- I'm Not Dead Yet / Mira Sidawi -- The Babbling of a Refugee / Taha Younis -- Ever since I Became a Mother, I've Hated Winter / Nadia Fahed -- Da'uq: A Burial Plot, a Cemetery / Youssef Naanaa -- Shorter and Longer than a Winter's Cold Spell / Yafa Talal El-Masri -- Hanin (Longing) / Hanin Mohammad Rashid -- My Heart Hangs from a Mulberry Tree / Wedad Taha -- Khadijeh, My Mother's Mother / Intisar Hajaj -- And the Dream Goes On / Ruba Rahme -- A Migration in Two Exiles: A Diary of the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon 1982 / Mahmoud Mohammad Zeidan.

In these pages, Palestinian refugees narrate their own histories. The product of a creative-writing workshop organized by the Institute for Palestine Studies in Lebanon, 11 Lives tells of children's adventures in the alleyways of refugee camps, of teenage martyrs and ghosts next-door, of an UNRWA teacher's dismay at the shallowness of her colleagues, and of the love, labour, and land that form the threads of a red keffiyeh. The 11 lives given voice here are unique, each an expression of the myriad displacements that war and occupation have forced upon Palestinians since the Nakba of 1948. At the same time, they form a collective testament of a people driven from their homes and land by colonial occupation. Each story is singular; and each tells the story of all Palestinians. What unites these 11 stories is "the inadmissible existence of the Palestinian people" highlighted by Said. Their words persist, as one contributor writes, "between the Nakba and the Naksa, throughout defeats and massacres, love affairs and revolutions." The stories of Palestinians in exile are also open-ended, and will continue to reverberate across borders until Palestine is free. --From publisher's description.

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