She has published two novels in Arabic: Sariq al-Nawm (The Sleep Thief, 2011) and Sifr al-Ikhtifaa (The Book of Disappearance, 2014), both by Dar al-Jamal (Beirut/Baghdad). Hamas, Fatah agree to hold elections in the coming months, Zoom cancels panel featuring Leila Khaled amid protests from pro-Israel groups, Palestinians face constant COVID-19 testing shortage, Omar Barghouti is a threat to Israel’s ‘universal security’ per Israeli lawmaker, Up to 1 in 4 US Jews sees Zionism as racist, colonialist apartheid movement! She studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and later at the University of Freiburg (Germany), where she completed an MA in Islamic Studies and German and English Literature. The Book of Disappearance Ibtisam Azem Ibtisam Azem.
She was born in Tayibe, in the area known as the Triangle, North of Jaffa.
Alla gradually tells us her story, about her attachment to Jaffa and its people and how her husband left her after 1948 to go and live in Beirut.
Ibtisam Azem is a Palestinian novelist and journalist.
The flower workers, for example, who have to cross through a checkpoint, from Palestine to Palestine as Azem laconically puts it and are subject to the whims of the guards as to how long it takes to get through. Her second novel, Sifr al-Ikhtifaa (The Book of Disappearance) was published in 2014, also by Dar al-Jamal, and is excerpted in Banipal 54 – ECHOES, translated by Sinan Antoon. By Ibtisam Azem, Amir Ahmadi Arian, Silvana Paternostro, Glaydah Namukasa. Every month we publish select prose and poetry on our site. For some Israelis, this is good news. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
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We also meet Shimon, an Israeli, who runs a flower-growing business for exports.
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