Book of Wills - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1836750005 ISBN 13 : 9781836750000

Editeur : Akoya Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2026

‘To write a will under siege is not surrender – it’s defiance. It says: I existed. I felt. I belonged. I am not yours to erase.’ REEM GHANAYEM

Eighteen Gazan writers share their last will and testament and with it their belief in the written word as a profound act of resistance.

A dual language English-Arabic edition.

Book of Wills is a devastating account of the human cost of war that bears witness to the lives and memories of the people of Gaza. The collection includes several accounts by writers who have since been killed, including the poem ‘If I Must Die’ by Rifaat Al-Ara’ir. Their voices live on in this dual language English-Arabic edition, edited by Palestinian poet and translator Reem Ghanayem, with introductions by Judith Butler and Alberto Manguel.

'These writings invite us to think and ask very important questions. What can language do in the face of this existential catastrophe?' Karim Mohamed, 7iber

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Reem Ghanayem is a Palestinian poet, researcher and translator of Arabic and English literature. She has translated works by James Joyce, Charles Bukowski and William Burroughs, and her translations have appeared in multiple Arabic magazines. She is the compiler, editor and one of the translators of Book of Wills.

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Psychic Life of Power, Excitable Speech, Bodies that Matter, Gender Trouble, Frames of War, and with Slavoj Zizek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Akoya Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1836750005
• ISBN 13: 9781836750000
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible