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Sonja Mejcher-Atassi | An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before & After 1948

In this episode of This Is Not a Watermelon, Sonja Mejcher-Atassi joins us in our studio in Beirut to talk about her book "An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948," which details the relationship between a group of friends who came together at a momentous time in the modern history of Palestine. The group, who Sonja calls her "famous five", features an extraordinary meeting of minds: Walid Khalidi, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Rasha Salam, Sally Kassab and Wolfgang Hildescheimer. The five straddle religious and cultural barriers to forge an unlikely friendship that becomes almost politically impossible after 1948. Learning about their friendship, we get snippets of life in Jerusalem during the British Mandate and other key moments in the country's history. We speak about how the bombing of the King David Hotel arguably marked a significant turning point for Palestine, and why it's important to read Palestinian and Israeli histories together considering how entangled they are. This episode was recorded on July 10th, 2024. 0:00 Introduction 1:23 An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait of Jerusalem Before & After 1948 10:18 The Bombing of King David Hotel 29:39 An Impossible Friendship Between Different Nationalities & Religions 46:22 The Legacy of the Five: Before Their Diaspora, All That Remains 54:29 Intercultural Friendships Today Want to learn more? Check out Sonja's recommendations for what to read of 20th Century Palestinian literature 👉 https://www.afikra.com/daftarjournal/... Dive deeper into the history of Jerusalem's King David Hotel 👉https://www.afikra.com/daftarjournal/... Sonja Mejcher-Atassi is a professor of Arabic and comparative literature in the Department of English and an associated faculty in the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages at the American University of Beirut. Her research focuses on modern Arabic literature in global perspective, and closely intersects with cultural and intellectual history and memory studies. She is also interested in biography, writers' libraries, collecting practices and literature archives, book culture and art, and aesthetics and politics. Connect with Sonja 👉 https://x.com/someatassi About "An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait Before & After 1948": Sonja Mejcher-Atassi tells the story of this unlikely friendship and in so doing offers an intimate cultural and social history of Palestine in the critical postwar period. She vividly reconstructs the vanished social world of these protagonists, tracing the connections between the specificity of individual lives and the larger contexts in which they are embedded. In exploring this ecumenical friendship and its artistic, literary, and intellectual legacies, Sonja demonstrates how social biography can provide a picture of the past that is at once more inclusive and more personal. Learn more about the book 👉 https://cup.columbia.edu/book/an-impo... Theme music: Peninsular, Tarek Yamani 🔊 https://spoti.fi/47I59ns Hosted by: Mikey Muhanna 👉 / mikey_mu FOLLOW & RATE THE THIS IS NOT A WATERMELON PODCAST: » Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... » Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1UWCL1I... » Anghami: https://play.anghami.com/podcast/1047... THIS SERIES IS PART OF THE AFIKRA PODCAST NETWORK Explore all episodes in this series:    • This Is Not a Watermelon | Palestinian His...   ABOUT AFIKRA afikra | عفكرة is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region – past, present and future – through conversations driven by curiosity. 📍 Local events in 40+ locations worldwide http://afikra.com/chapters 🎧 New podcasts + videos weekly http://afikra.com/podcasts ⚡ Become a member: https://www.afikra.com/membership 🔗 Instagram: / afikra_ 🔗 Facebook: / afikra.official 🔗 Twitter: / afikra #Palestinian #Palestine #Nakba #ArabHistory #MiddleEastHistory