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In a summer of boredom and diary scribbles, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait jolted Selma Dabbagh into a sharper awareness of injustice and her Palestinian identity
Selma Dabbagh is a British Palestinian writer of fiction, whose work is mainly set in the contemporary Middle East. In this original essay for Port, she explores how literature, especially from Palestine, confronts the violent erasure of identity and existence