1967 al-Naksah

Mamdūḥ ʿAdwān (1941 – 2004, Syria) – al-Abtar (‘Flawed’, 1970) in which the sixty-year-old hero, Idrīs, resists Israeli occupation of…

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Munīf (1933 – 2004, Jordan / Saudi Arabia) – Ḥayna Taraknā al-Jisr (‘When we abandoned the bridge’, 1976).

Muʿīn Basīsū (1927 – 1984, Palestine) in his play Shamshūn wa Dalīlah (‘Samson and Delilah’, 1971) depicts the tragedy of

Ḥalīm Barakāt (1936-, Syria) – Sittat Ayyām (1961, English trans. Six Days, 1990) and ʿAwdat al-Taʾirila al-Bahr (1969, English trans.

Muʾnis al-Razzāz (1951 – 2002, Jordan) – Aḥyāʾ fī al-Baḥr al-Mayyit (‘The living in a dead sea’, 1982). This novel

Alfrīd Faraj’s (1929 – 2005, Egypt) play al-Zīr Sālim (‘Prince Salim’, 1967) is based on the saga of the lengthy,

The 1967 war brought all of historic Palestine under Israeli control and deepened collective disillusionment. It led to a new