Jerusalem Lamps - Ali Bader

Through the vast amount of documents in this novel, we arrive at the denial of the official Israeli narrative, and another different narrative begins: the narrative of the refugees, the expelled and the exiled, the narrative of the absent and the marginalized. Through the defeated narrative, the victorious narrative retreats, and the city appears from under the scroll with its erased writings and its abandoned and neglected memories. Edward Said continues his journey and stops, looking at it and the old city is restored in his eyes, and its external structure, which was created by the colonial narrative, peels away and collapses.