Selma Dabbagh

British Palestinian writer and author of novels

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Reviews

BOOKS, FILMS, PLAYS

What if Palestinians Just Disappeared? Review of The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azam,translated by Sinan Antoon. (2020)

When Duty Destroys Morality. Review of Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (2020)

Savouring Small Morsels of Beauty. Review of The Sea Cloak & Other Stories by Nayrouz Qarmout (2020)

Mending the Holes In Collective Memory Review of THE VOID by Azza el-Hassan (2019)

Everywhere Displaced, Everywhere Watching. Review of It Must be Heaven, Film by Elia Suleiman (2019)

Stuck Between Duty and Decay; WAJIB by Annemarie Jacir (film, 2017)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pay No Heed To The Rockets; Palestine in the Perfect Tense, by Marcello di Cintio (Al Saqi, 2018)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Putting Balfour on Trial. Double review of two books by Skyscraper Press (2017) Palestine; The Reality by JMN Jeffries and Balfour in the Dock: J.M.N. Jeffries and the Case for the Prosecution by Colin Andersen.

The Commander; Fawzi Al-Qawuqji and The Fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948, Laila Parsons

Arab Idol, Feature Film by Hani Abu Assad

The Triumph of An Arab Idol Electronic Intifada, 12 November 2015

 

 


Extraordinary Rendition; (American) Writers on Palestine, ed. Ru Freeman

Writing About Palestine’s Tragedy, Electronic Intifada, 27 May 2016

Extraordinary Rendition is an anthology of American authors who refuse to self-censor

 

 

 

 

3,000 Nights, Feature Film by Mai Masri

Israeli Prison Brutality Dramatised in A New Film by Mai Masri Review in Electronic Intifada

 


Mischa Hiller, Shake Off (and Sabra Zoo),

Mischa Hiller brings Palestinian Heroes Alive In Stylish Spy Thriller, Electronic Intifada, 17 September 201

 

 

 

 

 

Penny Johnson and others Seeking Palestine,

Leading Writers Rise to Challenge in New Collection, Electronic Intifada, 25 February, 2013

 

 

 

Michelle Cohen Corasanti, The Almond Tree, 
Novel with Hollywood Potential Exposes Israel’s lies, Electronic Intifada, 4 March 2013

 

Atef Abu Seif and Others, The Book of Gaza,
Doubt and Desire Abound in The Book of Gaza, Electronic Intifada, 14 July, 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Israeli Portrait at Rose Tinted Past Gives Way to Rage At Settlers

Book review (non-fiction) Lives in Common; Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Hebron, by Menachim Klein, 23 March 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beit Sahour’s First Intifada Heroes Celebrated in Funny, Intelligent Film,

Film review of Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan’s The Wanted 18. Electronic Intifada, 16, April 2015.

Mandate Era Play Combusts Lingering Myths on Zionism, 

Review of A Land Without People, by Brian Rotman, Courtyard Theatre London, Electronic Intifada, 17 July 2015.

Fear and Self Loathing in Gaza, Ahmed Masoud’s Vanished 

Book review of Vanished, The Mysterious Disappearance of Mustafa Ouda (Rimal Press, 2015), by Ahmed Masoud, Electronic Intifada 3, August 2015.

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