Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba

Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba Ed. Basma Ghalayini. Manchester, UK. Comma Press. 2019. 222 pages.

THE TWELVE STORIES in Palestine +100 present radically different visions of Palestine in 2048. Technology dominates, particularly virtual reality and drone policing, with interference from the supernatural. In "The Key," by Anwar Hamed, translated by Andrew Leber, an invisible wall erected around Israel is disrupted by Palestinian ghosts returning home. Characters in every story have impaired or supernatural sight. A young woman in "Song of the Birds," by Saleem Haddad, glimpses the decayed and wretched world that virtual reality obscures. In Emad El-Din Aysha's "Digital World," virtual reality has a positive...