![]() ![]() On her way home from a night-long women’s committee meeting she finds she is being watched by an armed fighter in a green jacket. His twin Iman, a teacher who is uncomfortably aware she is seen as a Swiss-educated outsider and returnee, is trying with difficulty to find a role as an activist. Unemployed Rashid, who has been awake through the night smoking marijuana and watching the onslaught, is offered an escape route in the form of a scholarship to London. ![]() Confined to a wheelchair after losing his legs in an explosion that killed wife and son, Sabri is writing a book on Palestinian history.Īs the novel opens Gaza is under bombardment. The novel’s main characters are 27-year-old twins Rashid and Iman, their parents, and their older brother Sabri. ![]() Out of It is an inter-generational Palestinian novel set in Gaza, England and the Gulf. British-Palestinian fiction writer Selma Dabbagh’s debut novel Out of It, newly published in the UK by Bloomsbury Publishing, was launched at the Mosaic Rooms in central London last Thursday with a discussion between Dabbagh and the distinguished British novelist Maggie Gee, followed by a book signing. ![]()
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