Soraya Antonius’s Portrait of a Lost Palestine by Selma Dabbagh

A Palestinian woman from Jerusalem, 1938, via Wikimedia Commons. Photograph by John David, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. The Lord, Soraya Antonius’s vivid chronicle of Palestinian life before the Nakba of 1948, is a novel that moves fast, driven by fury and passion. Tales are told within tales; there are jump cuts and flashbacks. Antonius’s … [Read more…]




