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By (author) Sheikha Helawy; Illustrated by Anna Morrison
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From award-winning author Sheikha Helawy comes this lyrical collection of eighteen short stories celebrating the women and girls of Palestine and their spirit of resilience.
They Fell Like Stars from the Sky and Other Stories is a collection of eighteen short stories celebrating the courage, resilience, tragedies and triumphs of Bedouin Palestinian women and girls.From a woman whose tattoo arouses the alarm of sexual taboos to the young girls whose curiosities of womanhood spark endearment, and from the tragic outcome of a husband consumed by jealousy of his wife”s teenage love to the ecstatic love of an elderly woman for the game of football, these stories offer mesmerising portraits of life on the margins. Featuring beautiful illustrations throughout, They Fell Like Stars from the Sky and Other Stories is a powerful ode to the Bedouin women and girls of Palestine and their spirit for every form of freedom.
Table of contents
Translator”s Note 1. Haifa Assassinated My Braid 2. I”ll Be There3. They Fell Like Stars From the Sky4. Pink Dress5. Ali6. Serpent7. Soulless Cities8. “All the Love I”ve Known”9. Umm Kulthum”s Intercessor10. A Funny Red Rose11. Bride12. W – h – o – r – e13. The Door to the Body14. Barbed Question15. Three Paintings16. The Day My Donkey Died17. God Bless Toun Field!18. Queens of DarknessAcknowledgements
Biographical note
Sheikha Helawy was born in an unrecognised Bedouin village near Haifa before moving to Jaffa, Israel. She is a lecturer in Arab Feminism at Ben Goreon University and also writes fiction and poetry. Her work has been translated into German, French and Bulgarian, and she was awarded an Arabic short story award in 2019-20.
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