{"title":"Saeed Teebi","description":"Saeed Teebi is an award-winning writer and lawyer. His debut short story collection, Her First Palestinian, was a finalist for several awards, including the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Prize. His nonfiction has appeared in The Globe and Mail and The New Quarterly. Born in Kuwait, he resettled in the United States, then Canada. He now lives in Toronto.","products":[{"product_id":"her-first-palestinian-paperback","title":"Her First Palestinian - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Saeed Teebi's intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada. A doctor teaches his girlfriend about his country, only for her to fall into a consuming obsession with the Middle East conflict. A math professor risks his family's destruction by slandering the king of a despotic, oil-rich country. A university student invents an imaginary girlfriend to fit in with his callous, womanizing roommates. A lawyer takes on the impossible mission of becoming a body smuggler. A lonely widower travels to Russia in search of a movie starlet he met in his youth in historical Jaffa. A refugee who escaped violent circumstances rebels against the kindness of his sponsor. These taut and compelling stories engage the immigrant experience and reflect the Palestinian diaspora with grace and insight.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374219657439,"sku":"9781487010874","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/eelKaQN-9a9781487010874.webp?v=1789175548"},{"product_id":"you-will-not-kill-our-imagination-a-memoir-of-palestine-and-writing-in-dark-times-hardcover","title":"You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNominated for The Trillium Book Award \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eINSTANT BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vital, fearless memoir explores what it means to be a Palestinian in this moment, the effects of the genocide on Palestinian art and imagination, and that to even claim a belonging to the land from a country thousands of miles away is an act of subversion--a book that Omar El Akkad says \"so perfectly contextualizes and humanizes so much of what has led us to this awful moment, and one that will be remembered long after.\" \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eImagination is a more powerful force than hope.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcclaimed author Saeed Teebi was at work on his first novel when the attacks on Gaza began in late 2023. The violence and cruelty of the attacks, accompanied by the assent and silence of international governments, stunned many across the globe, like Teebi, into a new state of permanent horror. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat does it mean to be of the Palestinian diaspora in such a moment? What does it mean to be of a people who have sustained such a large-scale assault not only on their homeland, but their entire identity? What is the role of art, of language--of imagination--in asserting one's identity, when that very assertion is read as an act of subversion? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this incisive work, Teebi explores, with searing, razor-sharp prose, the effects of genocide on the bodies, minds, and imaginations--of Palestinians especially, and humanity in general. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is at once a memoir of one family's displacement, a scathing indictment of global complicity in the face of brutality, and a profound rumination on art and imagination as a means of defiance. It is an astonishing work of resistance by a major intellect, and it is both urgent and timeless.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51382180348127,"sku":"9781668084663","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0KYjjEsTy79781668084663.webp?v=1789286502"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/saeed-teebi.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}