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.

Through Palestinian and Arab-Jewish writings that transgress a segregationist colonial discourse that sought to manufacture Zionist Hebrew literature, A People’s Literature of Palestine/Israel offers a powerful anticolonial archive for a radical imagination of a future through cultural co-resistance.

• Preface by Maha Nassar IntroductionPART I: A ManifestoHumanity is the Subject and the Aim of Literature - Emile HabibyPART II: Stories of the BorderDalia: A story from the core of reality - Emile HabibyInfiltrators - Hanna IbrahimMendelbaum Gate - Emile HabibyTwo women - Sami MichaelBlood and Spit - Jamal MusaPART III. Stories of the Transit CampThis is My Father - Sami MichaelHe Loved Life - Shimon BallasFire! - Sami MichaelBetween the Mud and the Huts - Shimon BallasPART IV. Stories of the VillageThe First Light - Hannah IbrahimThe Great Shadow - Sami MichaelA Love Destroyed - Police by NuriUm Suwwar - Muhammed NaffaOn The Night of Eid - Hannah IbrahimPART V. The Poetry FestivalFestival and Solidarity PoetryHarvest of Skulls - Tawfiq ZayyadHe Will Return - David SemahMy Brother Taqfiq - Davis SemahA Child of My People - Hanna Abu HannaPART VI. CommentaryThe Story We Want - Jabra NicolaImmigrant Writers - Sami MichaelReferencesTranslator Biographies

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.

Through Palestinian and Arab-Jewish writings that transgress a segregationist colonial discourse that sought to manufacture Zionist Hebrew literature, A People’s Literature of Palestine/Israel offers a powerful anticolonial archive for a radical imagination of a future through cultural co-resistance.

• Preface by Maha Nassar IntroductionPART I: A ManifestoHumanity is the Subject and the Aim of Literature - Emile HabibyPART II: Stories of the BorderDalia: A story from the core of reality - Emile HabibyInfiltrators - Hanna IbrahimMendelbaum Gate - Emile HabibyTwo women - Sami MichaelBlood and Spit - Jamal MusaPART III. Stories of the Transit CampThis is My Father - Sami MichaelHe Loved Life - Shimon BallasFire! - Sami MichaelBetween the Mud and the Huts - Shimon BallasPART IV. Stories of the VillageThe First Light - Hannah IbrahimThe Great Shadow - Sami MichaelA Love Destroyed - Police by NuriUm Suwwar - Muhammed NaffaOn The Night of Eid - Hannah IbrahimPART V. The Poetry FestivalFestival and Solidarity PoetryHarvest of Skulls - Tawfiq ZayyadHe Will Return - David SemahMy Brother Taqfiq - Davis SemahA Child of My People - Hanna Abu HannaPART VI. CommentaryThe Story We Want - Jabra NicolaImmigrant Writers - Sami MichaelReferencesTranslator Biographies

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.

Through Palestinian and Arab-Jewish writings that transgress a segregationist colonial discourse that sought to manufacture Zionist Hebrew literature, A People’s Literature of Palestine/Israel offers a powerful anticolonial archive for a radical imagination of a future through cultural co-resistance.

• Preface by Maha Nassar IntroductionPART I: A ManifestoHumanity is the Subject and the Aim of Literature - Emile HabibyPART II: Stories of the BorderDalia: A story from the core of reality - Emile HabibyInfiltrators - Hanna IbrahimMendelbaum Gate - Emile HabibyTwo women - Sami MichaelBlood and Spit - Jamal MusaPART III. Stories of the Transit CampThis is My Father - Sami MichaelHe Loved Life - Shimon BallasFire! - Sami MichaelBetween the Mud and the Huts - Shimon BallasPART IV. Stories of the VillageThe First Light - Hannah IbrahimThe Great Shadow - Sami MichaelA Love Destroyed - Police by NuriUm Suwwar - Muhammed NaffaOn The Night of Eid - Hannah IbrahimPART V. The Poetry FestivalFestival and Solidarity PoetryHarvest of Skulls - Tawfiq ZayyadHe Will Return - David SemahMy Brother Taqfiq - Davis SemahA Child of My People - Hanna Abu HannaPART VI. CommentaryThe Story We Want - Jabra NicolaImmigrant Writers - Sami MichaelReferencesTranslator Biographies