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Selma Dabbagh

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Selma Dabbagh is a British Palestinian writer of fiction based in London. Her short stories have been included in a number of anthologies including those published by Granta and the British Council. She was English PEN’s nominee for International PEN’s David TK Wong Award 2005 and has won and been nominated for various international short story awards.
Her first novel Out of It (Bloomsbury, December 2011) that follows the lives of the children of the former exiled leadership who returned to Gaza with the peace deals of the 1990s was recently published to widespread acclaim and reviewed positively by The Independent, the Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, the Daily Mirror, the Times Literary Supplement as well as other British and Middle ...more

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Average rating: 3.71 · 2,117 ratings · 323 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write by Sabrina Mahfouz (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Fadia Faqir, Amina Jama 3.71 avg rating — 1,380 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba by Liyana Badr, Talal Abu Shawish, Najlaa Ataallah 3.91 avg rating — 687 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of It 3.43 avg rating — 334 ratings — published 2011 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature by Ahdaf Soueif (Editor), Omar Robert Hamilton (Editor), J.M. Coetzee (Contributor) 4.52 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Wrote In Symbols: Love and Lust By Arab Women Writers 3.83 avg rating — 155 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bare Lit 2016 by Kavita Bhanot (Editor), Courttia Newland (Editor), Mend Mariwany (Editor) 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Internazionale n. 1237: Storie by Suad Amiry (Editor), Giovanni De Mauro (Editor), Raja Shehadeh 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We can't just run away. It's our land. Our people. We have a duty.”
― Selma Dabbagh, Out of It

tags: home, palestine

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“He could never go back to that place, it had been sealed off to him for ever, blown to the sky with explosives then flattened to the ground with bulldozers, built over with tarmac, lived on top of by other people.”
― Selma Dabbagh, Out of It

tags: ethnic-cleansing, palestine

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“All interpretations of history are propaganda for one idea or another.”
― Selma Dabbagh, Out of It

tags: history, politics

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