Great Escape
Life During Wartime
How Palestinian novelist Atef Abu Saif writes his way out of Gaza
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8 min readAug 22, 2018
Atef Abu Saif had one of the formative experiences of his literary career in an Israeli jail in 1991. It was Ramadan, and the other prisoners asked Abu Saif, then in his early twenties, to compose a story for a breakfast. During the first Palestinian intifada, in the late…
