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Historical person
1865–1948
Najib Nassar was a Palestinian journalist, editor and political writer who founded the Arabic newspaper Al-Karmil in Haifa in 1908. From its pages he criticised Ottoman centralisation, warned against Zionist land acquisition and argued for Palestinian and Arab political awareness.
His journalism made him one of the formative figures of the early Palestinian press. Ottoman authorities pursued and imprisoned him during the First World War, and he continued political and literary work under British rule. Ibrahim Nasrallah refers to Nassar and Al-Karmil in Time of White Horses, linking the fictional village of Hadiya to documented Palestinian public debate.
Series
The Palestinian Comedy is Ibrahim Nasrallah’s open-ended cycle of independent novels reconstructing Palestinian history across roughly two and a half centuries. The books share a historical project rather than recurring protagonists, moving between regions, families and political eras while treating each volume as a standalone novel. The Lanterns…
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