Novara FM: Palestine 2048 w/ Basma Ghalayini
Science fiction isn't a mode usually associated with Palestinian literature, perhaps because dreams of the future seem like a luxury when you can barely hold onto your past, or even present. In 2019, translator and editor Basma Ghalayini asked 12 Palestinian authors to imagine their world in 2048 – a century after the Nakba that violently dispossessed them of their land and rights – for a collection of sci-fi short stories. Some of the dystopias imagined by these authors proved gravely prescient this year. Basma, who grew up in the Gaza Strip and now lives in Manchester, joined Eleanor for a…
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