The Grandchildren of Yūnis: Palestinian Protest Camps, Infiltration, and Ilyās Khūrī’s Bāb al-shams.
In January 2013, Palestinian activists set up a camp on Israeli-occupied land in the West Bank to protest Israeli settlement plans. They named their village "Bāb al-shams," or "Gate of the Sun," after Ilyās Khūrī's novel by the same name that chronicles the Palestinian refugee experience from the be...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 177 - 199 |
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