This is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

by Ahdaf Soueif

A week after the festival has wrapped a drunk man in Ramallah says, Don’t be enchanted by Haifa. Haifa is corrupt, her beauty is a cheap mask. Go to the abandoned villages, go to the Muthallath, go to Um el-Fahm; there you will find Palestine.