BOOK REVIEWS IN FORTHCOMING AL JADID, VOL. 24, NO. 78, 2020
Jewish-Israeli author Ilana Hammerman’s recent memoir, “A Small Door Set in Concrete” (University of Chicago Press, 2019), takes readers into life after decades of occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. This memoir traverses the experiences of Palestinien men, women, and children living behind the wall who are unable to move and act freely.
ESSAYS IN FORTHCOMING AL JADID, VOL. 24, NO. 78, 2020
ESSAYS IN FORTHCOMING AL JADID, VOL. 24, NO. 78, 2020
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For a Friend Sorely Missed
This brief column can only begin to do justice to Iraqi poet and critic Moayyad al-Rawi. A longer tribute will appear in Al Jadid’s next issue later this year (Vol. 23, No. 77, 2019).
Moayyad, who died in 2015, fled the Iraqi dictatorship in 1970 for Lebanon, making it his first stop in a life in exile; it is there I met him. Imprisonment and repression following the 1963 Baathist coup forced him to leave Baghdad and Kirkuk, which he loved, and which figured prominently in his writings.