East Jerusalem noir / edited by Rawya Jarjoura Burbara ; translated from Arabic by Roger Allen, Marilyn Booth, Catherine Cobham, Raphael Cormack, Sawad Hussain, Dr. Nazih Kassis, Nancy Roberts and Max Weiss.
Part III: Moving to despair. Checkpoints of death / Nuzha al-Ramlawi. The scorpion / Ibrahim Jouhar -- Between the two Jerusalems / Osama Alaysa -- In an extraordinary city / Rahaf al-Sa'ad -- Fleeing from the Assyrian soldiers / Ziad Kadash -- Part II: Dreaming, praying city. City of love and loss / Mahmoud Shukair -- An astronaut in Jerusalem / Iyad Shamasnah -- Diary of a Jerusalem teacher / Rafiqa Othman -- The sun still shines / Dima al-Samman -- Part III: Moving to despair. This is Jerusalem / Majd Abu Ghosh -- Noble sanctuary / Muhammad Shuraim -- Mosques, churches, falafel, Mujaddara / Jameel al-Salhout -- Checkpoints of death / Nuzha al-Ramlawi.
Summary:
In East Jerusalem Noir--published simultaneously with West Jerusalem Noir--the Akashic Noir Series turns its gaze to one of the world's most fascinating locales, in this volume from the perspective of Palestinian writers; translated from Arabic. When you move through the streets of Jerusalem today, you will notice that history surrounds you from all sides. You hear Adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, recited by the muezzin from the Dome of the Rock; you hear the bells of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where the Christians pray, accompanied by the voices of the Jewish worshippers at the Wailing Wall. You are filled with awe and stand helpless to do anything except feel both joy and sadness at the same time. Your feelings mingle, your thoughts get confused, and you peer at the sky waiting for God's mercy and relief . . . The stories here are varied, and I did not interfere with the writers' content. I asked them to portray the city of Jerusalem as they live it, as they feel it, as they appreciate it, as they fear it, as they want it to be, and as they imagine it in the past, the present, and the future . . . And now we put the black box in your hands! Kindly open it to reveal the secrets of Jerusalem and its people, who wake up to the sound of a forgotten rooster from a previous era to declare the beginning of a new dawn, so that life will not stop recording its new diary entries.
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