Salman Masalha
Archieve (2001):In those days, we did not drink four goblets of wine, because everything that gladdens the human heart is not a part of our custom.
Salman Masalha ||The pit and the pendulum
Memory isn’t made of metal and therefore it does not rust. To put it mildly, this might sound strange. However, for us, the second generation of the Nakba, the...
Showing posts with label Essays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Essays. Show all posts
Welcome Back to History
Islam, like other imperialist ideologies, still needs enemies to flourish. Enemies have served Islam in the past as fuel for its wagons. Without enemies Islam declines and stagnates...
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Welcome Back to History
For centuries the Arab world has been living in chronic sickness. One basic reason for this sickness is the mixture between...
Longings for Jerusalem
In the wake of “In the Land of Israel: Essays,” by Amos Oz, 1983.
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Longings for Jerusalem
It’s been many a day since first I came to Jerusalem in the 1970s. After all these years I’ve learned that their number can be considered as the blink of an eye in comparison to all the years of the city that falls and rises, falls and rises...
Hearts and Diamonds
Salman Masalha
Hearts and Diamonds
At this summer’s end, ill-assorted sounds mingle in the air. During the days of this month of Ramadan that has just knocked at the city gates, unsynchronized voices of muezzins cut through the sky. Each voice, in its own way, rises from...
All Birds Lead to Rome
Salman Masalha
ALL BIRDS LEAD TO ROME
At the end of the 1950s, I was a young boy, and quite naïve and innocent. It never crossed my little Arab mind to wonder about the hidden intentions of the flocks of birds that would land, as the olive harvest approached, in the fields of olive trees of the village of Maghar that looks out over the Sea of...
Tribal Tribulations
Salman Masalha
Tribal Tribulations
On May 2nd, 1860, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a Jewish boy was born to Jacob and Jannet in the city of Pest, which later joined Buda to form Budapest. They called him Theodor. Young Theodor wandered in many places and settled in Vienna where he studied law, a profession in which he never worked.
This young...
The Apache War
Salman MasalhaThe Apache WarSummer Rains. Thus spoke the Israel Defense Forces muses and a pleasant chill emanated from the radio and television receivers and seeped into the heart of the sticky consensus in the heat of a new summer. Before long the Israeli media buried the wicked use of the Hebrew language, meant to conceal crimes perpetrated by the...
