A review by zinelib
Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh

challenging sad fast-paced

5.0

I started this at a Read Palestine Week event and took it home because I hadn't finished it, and it was so good--and so awful. Sabaaneh, who spent time in an Israeli prison reveals what it's like to live an work under apartheid. 

The pages are black and the illustrations are white, with the look of wood or linoleum prints. Every page is a heart wrenching visual poem, like the art that accompanies this text

As a teacher in Palestine, you have to suddenly stop class on account of a visit by a woman, who stands there in tears, silently screaming: "I am the mother of that void that sits between you."

What never fails to amaze me, though, about Palestinians, is their sustained hope and belief in a better future. Even the birds in Palestine uphold that vision, with prison birds flying around telling the stories so they won't die. 

But the purpose of these stories is to give them strength and keep them from leaving. I like them. I'm not leaving.