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Namesake by N. S. Nuseibeh

March 21, 2026 by matt_thac Leave a Comment

It’s sometimes a strange feeling to live overseas. No matter how settled you feel, how well you feel you’ve gotten under the skin of where you are, there are always voices whispering how you’re not of that place. These whispers talk of ancestral roots and ideas of home that Nuseibeh constructs into a series of essays linking to the fierce Islamic warrior, Nusaybah.   Nuseibeh explores her own identity as much as the near mythical figure of Nusaybah.  Navigating multiple identities, a woman, a secular […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr18, essay collection, N. S. Nuseibeh, Palestine

matt_thac's CBR18 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr18, essay collection, N. S. Nuseibeh, Palestine ·
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