Women and children refugees evacuate the village of Zenin during the 1948 Palestinian Nakba. John Phillips / Time Life Pictures / Getty Images
Women and children refugees evacuate the village of Zenin during the 1948 Palestinian Nakba. John Phillips / Time Life Pictures / Getty Images
The distant imagination of the Middle East’s exiled writers
As bloody conflict continues to devastate the region, driving countless people from their homes, Shirine Saad examines the profound influence migration and exile have had on Middle Eastern literature.