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Selma Dabbagh

Selma Dabbagh s a British-Palestinian writer and lawyer. She holds an LLM from SOAS and a PhD from Goldsmiths University. She has worked for human rights organizations in Jerusalem, Cairo and London. Selma’s debut novel Out of It (Bloomsbury 2011) is set between Gaza, London and the Gulf. Her fiction includes short stories, radio plays as well as productions for stage and screen. She is the editor of We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers (Saqi 2021) and a judge for the 2025 EBRD Literature Prize. She blogs for the London Review of Books on Gaza.

28 February, 2025 • Selma Dabbagh

The World After Gaza—a Review

Technology, rational division of labor, and deference to authority enabled ordinary people to contribute to acts of mass extermination in Gaza.

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20 September, 2024 • Selma Dabbagh

Don’t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide by Atif Abu Saif

A Gaza diary that is a physician's personal testimony on life under excruciating, unrelenting bombardment, loss and hardship.

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19 July, 2024 • Selma Dabbagh

Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by Avi Shlaim—a Review

Selma Dabbagh reviews Avi Shlaim's memoir about his coming-of-age as an Iraqi Jew, living as a minority in Israel and then in England.

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25 September, 2023 • Selma Dabbagh

The Mystery of Enayat al-Zayyat in Iman Mersal’s Tour de Force

Selma Dabbagh reviews a masterpiece that gives insight into the life of a remarkable woman artist striving to live on her own terms.

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3 September, 2023 • Selma Dabbagh

London Cemeteries: And Now It Is Death

Selma Dabbagh's run through a London cemetery proves to be valuable fodder for the creative inspiration the writer was searching for.

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15 June, 2022 • Selma Dabbagh

Selma Dabbagh: “Trash”

A short story of international love from the author of the Gaza novel "Out of It."

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14 July, 2021 • Selma Dabbagh

Gazan Skies, from the novel “Out of It”

There are times when you can think of little else but escaping your present reality, as Rashid does in this excerpt from Selma Dabbagh's novel on Gaza.

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16 May, 2021 • Selma Dabbagh

Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt’s Roaring 20s

Selma Dabbagh reviews the story of Egypt's pioneering women performers and feminists, including Oum Khoulthum and Munira al-Maydiyya.

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