#mornings in jenin

[literatureaesthetic]

to anyone wanting to read about palestine / israel, i highly recommend mornings in jenin by susan abulhawa. i wrote my dissertation on this book. it has so many layers, it's so complex, and it's a really good novel if you're looking to develop a better understanding of the history between palestine and israel

[paiawon]

the raw grief in each word of mornings in jenin by susan abulhawa is astonishing. this book should be a mandatory read

[houseofpurplestars]

"...when I confessed to a string of disappointing relationships in the united states, her voice deepened, pulling the words from a wisdom at her core.

"Amal, I believe that most americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them. They live in safe, shallow parts that rarely push human emotions into the depths where we dwell.

...the terror we have known is something few westerners ever will. israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our own emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

The roots of our grief coil so deeply into loss that death has come to live with us like a family member who makes you happy by avoiding you, but who is still one of the family. Our anger is a rage that westerners cannot understand. Our sadness can make the stones weep. And the way we love is no exception.

It is the kind of love you can know only if you have felt the intense hunger that makes your body eat itself at night. The kind you know only after life shields you from falling bombs or bullets passing through your body. It is the love that dives naked toward infinity's reach. I think it is where God lives.""

- Susan Abulhawa, "Mornings in Jenin"

[npdclaraoswald]

The saddest thing about this book is that it was published in 2010

[mythoughttherapy]

“I loved her in spite of myself. I loved her immeasurably. Infinitely. And I feared that love as much as I feared my own fury at the world.”

—Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

[fatimauii]

[fearano]

Amal 💔

© Fëarano

[esevik]

Chapter 31 + 32

And history is a repeating cycle. Israel is using the same excuse back then as they do now, they just change the name of who they try to target. Back then it was "PLO" now it's Hamas and they keep justifying it even if they kill more civilians than the number of "terrorists" they're hunting. It's infuriating that they've been able to get away with that excuse for decades now.

The hospital Amal's husband is working at got bombed. Luckily he wasn't there that specific time so he survived. The event even made him determined to finally get to safety, to Amal. Sadly the luck ended there and the street he was living on got leveled and this time he didn't make it out.

[newleavesinspring]

Here is a free audiobook version of Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa: https://youtu.be/oXQPp-6zmPU

For me personally almost every book from Palestinian authors has a huge wait list from libraries (which is a super good thing!), but as someone who listens to a lot of books at work I wanted audio versions. I hope this is helpful for anyone who may want to give it a listen before their library request comes through/order arrives.

[literatureaesthetic]

hi! i was wondering whether it's possible for us to read your dissertation on mornings in jenin?

i still(🥴) have to complete my post-grad edits!! but once it's ready, i'll be looking to either get it published or it'll go up on my substack — either way, i'll keep you updated!!

[nfinitefreetime]

Sunday night book reviewlets

I was gonna go see Deadpool & Wolverine today and life intervened, so let’s review a whole bunch of books. The Tide Child Trilogy, by RJ Barker: Excellent, although it took me fifty pages or so of the first book to get used to RJ Barker’s writing style. Nautical fantasy is a sorely underexploited subgenre, and damn near the entire trilogy takes place on a boat. Now, it’s a boat made from dragon…

[houseofpurplestars]

"Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable to israel. Martyrdom became the ultimate defiance of israeli occupation. "Never let them know they hurt you" was their creed.

But the heart must grieve. Sometimes pain emerged as joy. Sometimes, it was difficult to tell the difference. Death came to resemble life and life, death."

- from Mornings In Jenin by Susan Abulhawa

[harmonicaorange]

mornings in jenin one of the most moving books ever written i can’t stop thinking about it i see it in everything

[affascinailtuocuore]

S. Abulhawa-MORNINGS IN JENIN. Un viaggio umano e poetico tra i profughi di Palestina. Essere Ebrei, essere Palestinesi

A Thea Khamis che mi ha consigliato questo intenso romanzo. La storia “Palestine 1941. In the small village of Ein Hod a father leads a procession of his family and workers through the olive groves. As they move through the trees the green fruits drop onto the orchard floor; the ancient cycle of the seasons providing another bountiful harvest. Palestine 1948. The Abulheja family are forcibly…

[mythoughttherapy]

“How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night’s dark sky become blue?”

—Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

[npdclaraoswald]

The book I'm reading is fiction but it is based off real events, and reading this soldier think to himself a land without a people for a people without a land after he just forcibly marched the people of this land out of it at gunpoint is astounding