Story of a People

Jamal Assadi is a lecturer at An-Najah National University, Nablus and chairs the English Department at the College of Sakhnin for Teacher Education. He received his PhD in English literature from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in England. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals, Dr. Assadi is the author of Acting, Rhetoric, and Interpretation in Selected Novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Saul Bellow (2006); A Distant Drummer: Foreign Perspectives on F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007); Mohammad Ali Taha’s «A Rose to Hafeeza’s Eyes» and Other Stories (2008); Father and Son: Selected Short Fiction by Hanna Ibrahim Elias and Mohammad Ali Saeid (2009); Three Voices from the Galilee: Selected Short Stories by Mohammad Nafaa, Zaki Darwish and Naji Daher (2010); Mustafa Murrar: «The Internal Pages» and Other Stories (2010); Loud Sounds from the Holy Land: Short Fiction by Palestinian Women (2011); and The Road to Self-Revival: Sufism, Heritage, Intertextuality and Meta-Poetry in Modern Arabic Poetry (2011).

«In this volume Palestinian poets are canonized on the basis of their cognizance and merit; we love the translation because it alerts the outside world to the voice of the average Palestinian who seeks visibility within the confines of identity formation, both inside Palestine and in the Diaspora (Shetat), at a time when the voice of justice has become remote and inaudible. Thank the translator, we must.» (Nabil Alawi, Assistant Professor, Department of English, An-Najah National University)«This fascinating translation gives non-Arabic speakers a complex glimpse of the vibrant variety, lyrical vigor, and the political or personal intensity of diversely located and variously positioned Palestinian voices.» (Martin Orkin, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, The College of Sakhnin for Teacher Education)