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Lena Mubsutina Author’s Note: The next 12 days I will be sharing excerpts from the first part of my novel-in-progress, tentatively titled “The Thieving Pot.” It is loosely based on the Palestinian folktale, “Tunjur, Tunjur,” a story about a pot that comes to life and wreaks havoc on her neighbors with her deception and theft.Continue reading “Lena Mubsutina – The Thieving Pot: Excerpt 2”

Lena Mubsutina Author’s Note: The next 12 days I will be sharing excerpts from the first part of my novel-in-progress, tentatively titled “The Thieving Pot.” It is loosely based on the Palestinian folktale, “Tunjur, Tunjur,” a story about a pot that comes to life and wreaks havoc on her neighbors with her deception and theft.Continue reading “Lena Mubsutina – The Thieving Pot: Excerpt 1”

Lena Mubsutina Loving Those Who Want Us Dead You say again and again to love away oppression and destruction, but love doesn’t block bullets,return the dead,or diminish the loss imprinted in our being. So many testimonies and records of violence documenting sanctioned crimes against humanitythat we are told not to place sanctions onbecause that is the only terrorismthatContinue reading “Lena Mubsutina – Loving Those Who Want Us Dead”

Lena Mubsutina From from Abu Shusha,a village that lies beneath rubble topped with new buildings that house those who ban my return from Ramallah,a city that provided temporary shelterbut was soon captured and chained from the United States,a country that helped demolish my village and shackle my cityto save the rightful residents from the terror ofContinue reading “Lena Mubsutina – From”

Lena Mubsutina Shedding Self Conceal your pastand the markers that lead the way to it. Pretend your eyes and haircome from a place people romanticizeinstead of one they mock and fear. Look away from the injustices done to the peopleyou’ve left behind;avoid any suspicion of kinship. Never admit your longing for the food and dress ofContinue reading “Lena Mubsutina – Shedding Self”