Palestine +100 - BookWyrm

Paperback, 240 pages

Published Aug. 26, 2019 by Comma Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-910974-44-5

(2 reviews)

Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 – a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba. How might this event – which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes – reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolation, to shape the country and its people? Will a lasting peace finally have been reached, or will future technology only amplify the suffering and mistreatment of Palestinians?

Covering a range of approaches – from SF noir, to nightmarish dystopia, to high-tech farce – these stories use the blank canvas of the future to reimagine the Palestinian experience today. Along the way, we encounter drone swarms, digital uprisings, time-bending VR, peace treaties that span parallel universes, and even a Palestinian superhero, in probably the …

Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 – a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba. How might this event – which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes – reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolation, to shape the country and its people? Will a lasting peace finally have been reached, or will future technology only amplify the suffering and mistreatment of Palestinians?

Covering a range of approaches – from SF noir, to nightmarish dystopia, to high-tech farce – these stories use the blank canvas of the future to reimagine the Palestinian experience today. Along the way, we encounter drone swarms, digital uprisings, time-bending VR, peace treaties that span parallel universes, and even a Palestinian superhero, in probably the first anthology of science fiction from Palestine ever.

Translated from the Arabic by Raph Cormack, Mohamed Ghalaieny, Andrew Leber, Thoraya El-Rayyes, Yasmine Seale and Jonathan Wright.

2 editions

The Weaver Reads reviewed Palestine +100 by Basma Ghalayini

Goodreads Review of Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba

4 stars

This is a great collection of Palestinian Sci-Fi/speculative tales. There were a few that I was especially impressed with--"the Key," "Vengenance," the story about the olympics, the concluding surreal story (or novelette), and "Digital Nation" (which was uncharacteristically utopian). Others were more mixed.

It was great to read this, because I hadn't read much in the way of Arab Sci-Fi/speculative fiction until now. I had been trying to learn more on the subject, but information seems really limited. Ghalayini's introduction is great for this reason, too, as she goes into reasons for why the genre is so limited in Arabic literature, as well as why this might be changing.

Loved to see this.

patchworkbunny

rated it

Oct. 2, 2020