Dr Hana Morgenstern is Associate Professor in Global South and Middle Eastern Literatures at Cambridge University and a Fellow at Newnham College. She is a scholar of Middle Eastern literature and cultural histories of the Left, with a specialisation in Palestine and Israel, including Jewish, Hebrew, Palestinian and Arabic literatures and literary cultures. She is the author of Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel: Anticolonial Literature and Radical Print, editor of A People’s Literature of Palestine/Israel: An Anthology of Anticolonial and Socialist Writing (both Edinburgh University Press, 2026), and has published articles in in Journal of Levantine Studies, Modernism/modernity and Radical History Review. Morgenstern is co-founder and co-investigator of Revolutionary Papers, a transnational research collaboration on 20th-century anticolonial and anti-imperial periodicals. She is also co-founder of Archives of the Disappeared, an interdisciplinary initiative for the study of communities, social movements, spaces and cultures destroyed through acts of political repression and mass violence.

Hana Morgenstern's brilliant book is an incredible work of unlearning Zionist imperial temporality and its categories, and of refusing to abide by the brutal cut that the Nakba and the creation of "Israel" imposed on the life of Palestine, narrating a potential history of the entanglement between Palestinian voices and those of Jewish migrants from the Jewish-Muslim world. Morgenstern brilliantly rejects the Zionist premises of the categories of "Mizrahi" and "Mizrahi literature" in her careful, anticolonial readings of the literary activity around the journal al-Jadid, studying it not as a forgotten piece of history but as a still-urgent site of resistance — an emblematic example of what the Zionist West renders unthinkable. This is a must-read, especially today: amid the ongoing genocide fuelled by the West, such a study reminds us of the urgency of not letting the weaponry of AI write our histories.

• List of FiguresIntroduction: Making a Culture Under SiegeAn Unthinkable ArchiveAnticolonial Ensembles and the Magazine as MethodThe Colonial BindHistories and Conceptions of Co-ResistanceCo-Resistance Before 1948Resistance Literature and Anticolonial SolidarityCultural Co-ResistanceOverview of ChaptersPart I: Al-Jadid as Movement and Magazine1. Movement and Magazine: A Campaign for Cultural Reconstruction After the NakbaCultural Infrastructure and the MagazineThe Palestinian Communist VisionMarxist Cultural RootsLiterary Internationalism and the Arab Left in Palestine/IsraelPalestinians and Arab Jews: Arab Marxist Co-ResistanceBuilding a Culture from the Ashes: Kernels, Catalysts and InfrastructuresConclusion2. A People's Literature: Adab Al-Sha'b as News, History and Counter-NarrativeRevolutionary Prose Between Communism and Decolonisation: Social(ist) Realism as a Travelling GenreA People's Literature of Palestine/IsraelCo-Resistance and Historical Transmission in Ibrahim's "Infiltrators"Conclusion3. Anticolonial Form: Structural Critique and Historical Consciousness in the New Short StoryThe New Short Story: Lived Experience and the Machinery of PowerThe Border as a Problem SpaceAl-Ard Al-Haram: The Logics and Cosmologies of the BorderA Shock Country: The Arab Jew in the BorderlandsConclusionPart II: Lineages of Cultural Co-Resistance4. The People's Camp: The Palestinian and Co-Resistant Roots of Mizrahi FictionCollective Storytelling Between Arabic and HebrewBurying the Palestinian Roots of Mizrahi LiteratureHa-Ma’abara: An Alternative ReadingThe Black Man: Race and Critique in the Transit Camp NovelConclusion5. What is Anticolonial Translation? Legacies and Practices of Bilingual Co-ResistanceColonial TranslationBinationalism and Translation in al-Jadid and Throughout the 20th CenturyTranslating the Nakba into HebrewBilingual Literary Aesthetics and LayoutsTranslation and Normalisation: Andalus Press and the Arab WorldCo-Resistant Paratexts and Translational DesignWall Breaking TranslationThe Form of Anticolonial Translation in MaktoobLiterary Networks, Archival Transmissions, and Bilingual PracticesConclusionEpilogue: Writing Against AnnihilationReferencesIndex

Dr Hana Morgenstern is Associate Professor in Global South and Middle Eastern Literatures at Cambridge University and a Fellow at Newnham College. She is a scholar of Middle Eastern literature and cultural histories of the Left, with a specialisation in Palestine and Israel, including Jewish, Hebrew, Palestinian and Arabic literatures and literary cultures. She is the author of Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel: Anticolonial Literature and Radical Print, editor of A People’s Literature of Palestine/Israel: An Anthology of Anticolonial and Socialist Writing (both Edinburgh University Press, 2026), and has published articles in in Journal of Levantine Studies, Modernism/modernity and Radical History Review. Morgenstern is co-founder and co-investigator of Revolutionary Papers, a transnational research collaboration on 20th-century anticolonial and anti-imperial periodicals. She is also co-founder of Archives of the Disappeared, an interdisciplinary initiative for the study of communities, social movements, spaces and cultures destroyed through acts of political repression and mass violence.

Hana Morgenstern's brilliant book is an incredible work of unlearning Zionist imperial temporality and its categories, and of refusing to abide by the brutal cut that the Nakba and the creation of "Israel" imposed on the life of Palestine, narrating a potential history of the entanglement between Palestinian voices and those of Jewish migrants from the Jewish-Muslim world. Morgenstern brilliantly rejects the Zionist premises of the categories of "Mizrahi" and "Mizrahi literature" in her careful, anticolonial readings of the literary activity around the journal al-Jadid, studying it not as a forgotten piece of history but as a still-urgent site of resistance — an emblematic example of what the Zionist West renders unthinkable. This is a must-read, especially today: amid the ongoing genocide fuelled by the West, such a study reminds us of the urgency of not letting the weaponry of AI write our histories.

• List of FiguresIntroduction: Making a Culture Under SiegeAn Unthinkable ArchiveAnticolonial Ensembles and the Magazine as MethodThe Colonial BindHistories and Conceptions of Co-ResistanceCo-Resistance Before 1948Resistance Literature and Anticolonial SolidarityCultural Co-ResistanceOverview of ChaptersPart I: Al-Jadid as Movement and Magazine1. Movement and Magazine: A Campaign for Cultural Reconstruction After the NakbaCultural Infrastructure and the MagazineThe Palestinian Communist VisionMarxist Cultural RootsLiterary Internationalism and the Arab Left in Palestine/IsraelPalestinians and Arab Jews: Arab Marxist Co-ResistanceBuilding a Culture from the Ashes: Kernels, Catalysts and InfrastructuresConclusion2. A People's Literature: Adab Al-Sha'b as News, History and Counter-NarrativeRevolutionary Prose Between Communism and Decolonisation: Social(ist) Realism as a Travelling GenreA People's Literature of Palestine/IsraelCo-Resistance and Historical Transmission in Ibrahim's "Infiltrators"Conclusion3. Anticolonial Form: Structural Critique and Historical Consciousness in the New Short StoryThe New Short Story: Lived Experience and the Machinery of PowerThe Border as a Problem SpaceAl-Ard Al-Haram: The Logics and Cosmologies of the BorderA Shock Country: The Arab Jew in the BorderlandsConclusionPart II: Lineages of Cultural Co-Resistance4. The People's Camp: The Palestinian and Co-Resistant Roots of Mizrahi FictionCollective Storytelling Between Arabic and HebrewBurying the Palestinian Roots of Mizrahi LiteratureHa-Ma’abara: An Alternative ReadingThe Black Man: Race and Critique in the Transit Camp NovelConclusion5. What is Anticolonial Translation? Legacies and Practices of Bilingual Co-ResistanceColonial TranslationBinationalism and Translation in al-Jadid and Throughout the 20th CenturyTranslating the Nakba into HebrewBilingual Literary Aesthetics and LayoutsTranslation and Normalisation: Andalus Press and the Arab WorldCo-Resistant Paratexts and Translational DesignWall Breaking TranslationThe Form of Anticolonial Translation in MaktoobLiterary Networks, Archival Transmissions, and Bilingual PracticesConclusionEpilogue: Writing Against AnnihilationReferencesIndex

Dr Hana Morgenstern is Associate Professor in Global South and Middle Eastern Literatures at Cambridge University and a Fellow at Newnham College. She is a scholar of Middle Eastern literature and cultural histories of the Left, with a specialisation in Palestine and Israel, including Jewish, Hebrew, Palestinian and Arabic literatures and literary cultures. She is the author of Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel: Anticolonial Literature and Radical Print, editor of A People’s Literature of Palestine/Israel: An Anthology of Anticolonial and Socialist Writing (both Edinburgh University Press, 2026), and has published articles in in Journal of Levantine Studies, Modernism/modernity and Radical History Review. Morgenstern is co-founder and co-investigator of Revolutionary Papers, a transnational research collaboration on 20th-century anticolonial and anti-imperial periodicals. She is also co-founder of Archives of the Disappeared, an interdisciplinary initiative for the study of communities, social movements, spaces and cultures destroyed through acts of political repression and mass violence.

Hana Morgenstern's brilliant book is an incredible work of unlearning Zionist imperial temporality and its categories, and of refusing to abide by the brutal cut that the Nakba and the creation of "Israel" imposed on the life of Palestine, narrating a potential history of the entanglement between Palestinian voices and those of Jewish migrants from the Jewish-Muslim world. Morgenstern brilliantly rejects the Zionist premises of the categories of "Mizrahi" and "Mizrahi literature" in her careful, anticolonial readings of the literary activity around the journal al-Jadid, studying it not as a forgotten piece of history but as a still-urgent site of resistance — an emblematic example of what the Zionist West renders unthinkable. This is a must-read, especially today: amid the ongoing genocide fuelled by the West, such a study reminds us of the urgency of not letting the weaponry of AI write our histories.

• List of FiguresIntroduction: Making a Culture Under SiegeAn Unthinkable ArchiveAnticolonial Ensembles and the Magazine as MethodThe Colonial BindHistories and Conceptions of Co-ResistanceCo-Resistance Before 1948Resistance Literature and Anticolonial SolidarityCultural Co-ResistanceOverview of ChaptersPart I: Al-Jadid as Movement and Magazine1. Movement and Magazine: A Campaign for Cultural Reconstruction After the NakbaCultural Infrastructure and the MagazineThe Palestinian Communist VisionMarxist Cultural RootsLiterary Internationalism and the Arab Left in Palestine/IsraelPalestinians and Arab Jews: Arab Marxist Co-ResistanceBuilding a Culture from the Ashes: Kernels, Catalysts and InfrastructuresConclusion2. A People's Literature: Adab Al-Sha'b as News, History and Counter-NarrativeRevolutionary Prose Between Communism and Decolonisation: Social(ist) Realism as a Travelling GenreA People's Literature of Palestine/IsraelCo-Resistance and Historical Transmission in Ibrahim's "Infiltrators"Conclusion3. Anticolonial Form: Structural Critique and Historical Consciousness in the New Short StoryThe New Short Story: Lived Experience and the Machinery of PowerThe Border as a Problem SpaceAl-Ard Al-Haram: The Logics and Cosmologies of the BorderA Shock Country: The Arab Jew in the BorderlandsConclusionPart II: Lineages of Cultural Co-Resistance4. The People's Camp: The Palestinian and Co-Resistant Roots of Mizrahi FictionCollective Storytelling Between Arabic and HebrewBurying the Palestinian Roots of Mizrahi LiteratureHa-Ma’abara: An Alternative ReadingThe Black Man: Race and Critique in the Transit Camp NovelConclusion5. What is Anticolonial Translation? Legacies and Practices of Bilingual Co-ResistanceColonial TranslationBinationalism and Translation in al-Jadid and Throughout the 20th CenturyTranslating the Nakba into HebrewBilingual Literary Aesthetics and LayoutsTranslation and Normalisation: Andalus Press and the Arab WorldCo-Resistant Paratexts and Translational DesignWall Breaking TranslationThe Form of Anticolonial Translation in MaktoobLiterary Networks, Archival Transmissions, and Bilingual PracticesConclusionEpilogue: Writing Against AnnihilationReferencesIndex