Had to read it two days before aisha oude was scheduled for a visit/talk in bahrain. in it she writes of her arrest, interrogation, torture, first days of imprisonment. her writing is extremely important in that it sheds light on the palestinian female story. it sheds light on how she lives in apartheid. how she resists. how she reads and what she reads. how she plants bombs and isnt proud of the deaths. how she refuses to flee. how she is proud in jail. her beating her numbness her stripping her blue body her breasts their stick. then of her life-sentence and kanafani and darwish on prison walls. of singing in prison. of fear in prison. of life and the stripping of life that bars lead to.
her voice is crucial because the palestinan woman is allowed to carve into this history of resistance herstory. and it's crucial.
wouldnt have heard of the book if she wasnt scheduled to visit- if i hadnt came across the post about her talk. had to hunt online until i found a downloadable copy. why dont our bookshops provide this literature that is so crucial for our history? why is bahrain the first arab country to invite oude to speak? why was the hall she was speaking in half empty?