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Time for the Sci Fi Palestine panel! #palestinewrites
Two key texts for science fiction Palestine: The Book of Disappearance, and Palestine +100. #palestinewrites
"Trying to imagine alternative possibilities for survival and hope even." Ebony Coletu. #palestinewrites
Palestine Writes Literary Festival bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/PalestineWrites
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"I don't have to imagine being invaded by an alien civilization [...] I can just look out the window," Saleem Haddad.
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"How do Palestinians interpret this mythology [of technology, vis a vis Ursula Le Guin's def. of sci fi]?" Saleem Haddad
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"I had to dig inside and face everything I was hiding from bc for me writing is an act of inward reflection and exploration," Rawan Yaghi.
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[hearing Israeli bombs dropping on Gaza] "closes all possibilities of hope and makes the notion of fighting and resisting that kind of power really-- it felt like it was pointless." Rawan Yaghi.
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"That supernatural event [of all Palestinians vanishing from historic Palestine in her novel The Book of Disappearance] is not explained." Ibtisam Azem
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"I wanted to write about the silence of the continuous Nakba [the 'catastrophe' of ethnic cleansing in Palestine]," Ibtisam Azem.
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"The memory of the colonised place as experienced by different generations of Palestinians." Ibtisam Azem.
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"The digital return [is] appealing but at the same time [...], 'get out of the Matrix! Don't buy it!'" Ebony Coletu.
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"What is the benefit of letting go and disappearing into other identies?" Saleem Haddad
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Re: writing process of such trauma: "first draft is a total loss of control, it's going into so many worlds and so many ideas. I have to leave it for awhile before I can come back and control it." Rawan Yaghi
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The panelists wrote "dystopian realism" on the whole. Laughter @ suggestion of writing more optimistic modes.
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Thanks, @commapress for coming to the rescue! https://twitter.com/commapress/status/1334577337770315777
Sorry for the gap. I had to get the door. :D Back to the panel!
"We did not learn Palestinian literature," in Arab language schools under the Israeli school system.
Re: having to study Zionist literature that paints Palestine as terra nullius: "Where is my Palestine? in Palestine," Ibtisam Azem
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Re: having to study Zionist literature that paints Palestine as terra nullius: "Where is my Palestine? in Palestine," Ibtisam Azem
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"There's a huge feeling of skepticism, distrust in leadership, the feeling of betrayal from young people." Rawan Yaghi
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Q re: Queer rep in Palestinian spec fic: Lots of potential for exploring Queer IDs in SF "beyond Queer futurist writing". Saleem Haddad
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