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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 The Palace of Angels
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'Years ago, three young men, fired with idealism for Palestine’s second Intifada and fuelled by hashish, ventured on a clandestine transaction that left just one of them standing. Guns from Israel — bound for Gaza — in exchange for Egyptian hashish.

Many years later, the fight for freedom from Israel’s brutal occupation flared into another Israeli onslaught — another ‘war’. Amidst the bombardment of Gaza in 2014 — dreams and miracles were shattered for Farida and Fathi, caught in the clash of religious ideologies and the struggle to wrest or retain power.

At the same time angels brought two hearts together and when these lovers met, as in the Arabic phrase, their eyes saw no flaw. In their first pre-dawn encounter at a checkpoint queue, Adnan and Linah, on opposite sides of authority, had their minds convulsed and their eyes bloodied as a delirious young man was gunned down in the yellow-lit darkness of the night. She was an Israeli soldier on guard, he was a Palestinian commuter. While love blossomed, his friend Ali was served the cruellest of fates to embark down the long dark road of revenge.

What is Past is DeadTwenty-two Years to Life and The Palace of Angels are stories of fighting for freedom by fighting with our defined selves. Behind Palestine’s struggle for self-determination are beautiful faces, not normally revealed in war. We are made to question how we find out who we really are and what we wish to become. They are the stories of the seeds of peace and co-existence, yearning to come to life on both sides of the fence, to break through the overburden of noxious politics.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Dedication: Dedicated to you, whose tears fell into the well of my soul, whose voices planted stories in the depth of my heart.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Cheltenham, Brighton - Moorabbin area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Wild Dingo Press , 2019 .
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      Extent: 360 p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published August 2019.
      ISBN: 9781925893045 (pbk)

Works about this Work

Borders, Identity, Literature Jumana Bayeh , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 79 no. 4 2020;

'In a previous issue of Meanjin, Winnie Dunn wrote, ‘A critically conscious reader can see Australia through the literature that is missing just as equally as they can through the literature that exists.’ For Dunn, the literature that is ‘missing’ is work by Australians from minority and migrant communities, Indigenous Australians and people of colour or those from non-Anglo backgrounds. While I do not disagree with Dunn, I’d like to suggest that a critically conscious reader—whether in Australia or elsewhere—will further ask: what is missing when we read literature as a reflection of national boundaries, as a site where national identity is represented and given narrative shape? This is an important but deeply challenging question since the field of literary studies has long used the nation to categorise fiction, and has explained literature’s function through its capacity to define a nation’s culture and identity.' (Introduction)

The Palace of Angels by Mohammed Massoud Morsi Erich Mayer , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , September 2019;

— Review of The Palace of Angels Mohammed Massoud Morsi , 2018 selected work short story

'Morsi’s poetic stories of life in Palestine pull at the heartstrings.'

The Palace of Angels by Mohammed Massoud Morsi Erich Mayer , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , September 2019;

— Review of The Palace of Angels Mohammed Massoud Morsi , 2018 selected work short story

'Morsi’s poetic stories of life in Palestine pull at the heartstrings.'

Borders, Identity, Literature Jumana Bayeh , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 79 no. 4 2020;

'In a previous issue of Meanjin, Winnie Dunn wrote, ‘A critically conscious reader can see Australia through the literature that is missing just as equally as they can through the literature that exists.’ For Dunn, the literature that is ‘missing’ is work by Australians from minority and migrant communities, Indigenous Australians and people of colour or those from non-Anglo backgrounds. While I do not disagree with Dunn, I’d like to suggest that a critically conscious reader—whether in Australia or elsewhere—will further ask: what is missing when we read literature as a reflection of national boundaries, as a site where national identity is represented and given narrative shape? This is an important but deeply challenging question since the field of literary studies has long used the nation to categorise fiction, and has explained literature’s function through its capacity to define a nation’s culture and identity.' (Introduction)

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