Critical Panel in Amman Discusses “Taqaseem Al-Filistini” by Dr. Sana Al-Shalan

(Azzaman Info – Amman)
The “Noun for Book” initiative hosted writer and academic Dr. Sana Al-Shalan, known as “Bint Naima,” at a cultural panel held at the Abdul Hameed Shoman Library in Amman, dedicated to discussing her short story collection Taqaseem Al-Filistini.

The panel was moderated by writer and critic Osaid Al-Houtari, introduced by writer and critic Mondher Al-Lalla, while critic Dr. Fatima Al-Zghoul presented a critical reading of the collection, in a session marked by active interaction between speakers and the audience.
In her remarks, Dr. Al-Shalan highlighted the aesthetic and technical dimensions of the work, addressing narrative structure, symbolism, and stylistic techniques, noting that the collection falls within testimonial literature on the Palestinian cause and reflects the suffering and struggle of Palestinians inside and outside the occupied homeland.
Al-Houtari described Taqaseem Al-Filistini as a narrative experiment inspired by musical improvisations, based on disciplined spontaneity and structural diversity, considering it a distinctive model of experimental storytelling that bridges individual voice with formal rigor.
Mondher Al-Lalla stressed that the collection restores the Palestinian figure from an abstract political symbol to an everyday human being, living contradictions of love, fear, resistance, and fragility, oscillating between loss and survival, and between memory as a burden and as a means of endurance.
Dr. Fatima Al-Zghoul, for her part, viewed the collection as belonging to magical realism with a political and national documentary dimension, offering a literary portrayal of the Palestinian struggle for roots, identity, and belonging in the face of dispossession and occupation.