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They Fell Like Stars From the Sky & Other Stories Sheikha Helawy

They Fell Like Stars From the Sky & Other Stories By Sheikha Helawy

They Fell Like Stars From the Sky & Other Stories by Sheikha Helawy


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Summary

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 & Other Stories Summary

They Fell Like Stars From the Sky & Other Stories by Sheikha Helawy

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.

About Sheikha Helawy

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.

Table of Contents

Translator's Note 1. Haifa Assassinated My Braid 2. I'll Be There 3. They Fell Like Stars From the Sky 4. Pink Dress 5. Ali 6. Serpent 7. Soulless Cities 8. All the Love I've Known 9. Umm Kulthum's Intercessor 10. A Funny Red Rose 11. Bride 12. W - h - o - r - e 13. The Door to the Body 14. Barbed Question 15. Three Paintings 16. The Day My Donkey Died 17. God Bless Toun Field! 18. Queens of Darkness Acknowledgements

Additional information

GOR013498538
9781915584014
1915584019
They Fell Like Stars From the Sky & Other Stories by Sheikha Helawy
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Neem Tree Press Limited
2023-09-26
128
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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