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Palestine's sci-fi future is todays repressive reality

Dabaie, Marguerite
http://electronicintifada.net/content/palestines-sci-fi-future-todays-repressive-reality/29256

Publisher:  Electronic Intifada
Date Written:  08/01/2020
Year Published:  2020  
Resource Type:  Article

Palestine + 100, an anthology of science fiction by Palestinian authors, is likely the first of its kind. Its 12 writers were given a simple, but flexible, prompt: What would Palestine look like in 2048, a century after the Nakba?

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"The Key" by Anwar Hamed is told from an Israeli point of view. A young Jewish family lives peacefully after Israel installs a high-tech security wall around the perimeter of the state. "Only those with the right chip (implanted in the neck of all newborns)" can physically pass through it.

Despite this, the family hears someone attempting to unlock their door in the middle of the night with no evidence of a break-in. The sound continues over several nights with no apparent cause. They are unable to sleep and grow increasingly paranoid, eventually seeking the help of a psychiatric professional – a portrayal of the collective, subconscious guilt felt by Israelis who sleep soundly while Palestinians are brutally repressed.

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