Umm Sa‘d and Other Stories

“In simple and lucid English, we are presented here with pure artistic joy, and the sheer agony of a whole people transplanted from their dear homeland to be thrown away in an Arab diaspora perpetrated by the Jews. Kanafani did not live long, but his words did. The pencil in his right hand was so keen, and the beauty of his “Bride”, among other short stories, as well as his novella, Umm Sa‘d, had a simplicity so disarming that it armed every member of the refugee camp, where Umm Sa‘d lived, with a rifle so much more potent than the Czech Martina rifle or the Russian Kalashnikov: it is the invincible will to live, to survive, and to go on resisting the most scandalous theft and forgery in history: Israeli Palestine!!