Najwan Darwish performs in Nablus at the 2010 Palestine Festival of Literature.
Translation:
The Women of Lydd
Women as tall as dry wood,
memory can only compare them to spears,
necks craning out of buses, coming to visit Jerusalem.
That was before the arrival of short women settlers
who memory can only compare to 'dumdum' bullets.
Translated by Lubna Fahoum, from the Beirut39 anthology, Bloomsbury Publishing 2010
It is through literature that the Palestinian has the opportunity to express uniqueness and identity. It helps to reclaim what has been expropriated.
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