Tablet<\/em>\u2019s dealing with the death of Alereer touches on the discussion of literary quality in a wider sense, writes Ekman. Shrayer\u2019s review symbolizes how literature, poetry and critique will always be used to kick an enemy when they are down.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nytid224-1024x768.jpg\")
Women kicking against the odds<\/h2>\n
Dario Antonelli calls up Leen Qattawi, coach of Ramallah\u2019s women\u2019s football team. Antonelli visited the team, one of the best in the Palestinian women\u2019s league, a year ago. If the situation was difficult then, it is even more so now.<\/p>\n
After 7 October the men\u2019s league was suspended with immediate effect. But women\u2019s football has carried on regardless. Unlike the men\u2019s team, women\u2019s football in Palestine is not affiliated to FIFA, which means is free to regulate when the season starts and ends. That has allowed teams to adapt to the new circumstances.<\/p>\n
Qattawi has four players currently in the Qalandia camp, a refugee camp near Ramallah, where the Israeli army carries out brutal raids. Football will have to come second, although Qattawi knows that it\u2019s fundamental to the wellbeing of all the players in the team.<\/p>\n
Her role has changed since 7 October. She feels responsible, as a coach but also as a person. \u2018What happens in Gaza also affects the West Bank; we belong to the same people and live under the same brutal occupation,\u2019 she explains. \u2018It\u2019s difficult to organize training sessions. The mental health of the players is suffering and it\u2019s hard for young people to deal with all the difficulties they face; their peers in Gaza are being killed or threatened.\u2019<\/p>\n
Disappearing possibility of peace<\/h2>\n
\u2018I have no \u201cI told you so\u201d in me. I anticipated it, yet I couldn\u2019t foresee any of this.\u2019 Berlin-based Israeli writer Mati Shemoelof writes about the days following the attack on 7 October, and the Israeli reaction.<\/p>\n
Shemoelof calls his mother in Haifa and tries to explain that not all Palestinians support Hamas. She doesn\u2019t understand. \u2018They aren\u2019t human\u2019 she says. This might not be a time for rationality, he thinks, she has been glued to the TV all day, worrying about the hostages and their families. In an instagram post, he writes that despite the terror, destruction and enormous loss, he hasn\u2019t lost hope in Jewish and Palestinian coexistence. A relative of his answers that he should be ashamed.<\/p>\n
\u2018I felt alone and lost. I am not in Israel, maybe I can\u2019t imagine the situation. But again, I am not unfamiliar with this kind of event.\u2019<\/p>\n
Shemoelof grew up in Haifa, once a cosmopolitan and multinational city with a Palestinian majority. Shemoelof\u2019s grandfather fled from growing antisemitism in Iran in the late nineteenth century. He was a Jewish clothing retailer and carried on the family business to Shemoelof\u2019s father, who spoke Persian, Yiddish, Arabic, Hebrew and English. \u2018But this kind of life has long since ceased in the Middle East.\u2019.<\/p>\n
At university, as the Hezbollah missiles fell on Haifa, Shemoelof started reading about Palestinian civil rights movements such as Musawa and Adalah and began to understand the other narrative: the Palestinian one.<\/p>\n
Moving to Berlin brought new friendships that only distance from home could enable. He met a Gazan for the first time and began playing backgammon with him regularly. \u2018Will he still want to play with me now?\u2019 He also befriended a man who once fought for Hezbollah, which Shemelou faced as an Israeli soldier. Can these friendships survive this current war?<\/p>\n
\u2018I tell my partner that the possibility of peace between Palestinians and Israelis has been lost. She cries and says: \u201cDon\u2019t tell me that it\u2019s never going to happen.\u201d And I cry with her.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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