"Vengeance"

Title"Vengeance"
Year for Search2019
AuthorsAbutabikh, Tasnim(b. 1996)
Secondary AuthorsGhalayin, Basma
Secondary TitlePalestine + 100 [Cover adds Stories from a century after the Nakba]
Pagination103-116
Date Published2019
PublisherComma Press
Place PublishedNp
ISBN Number978-1-91097-444-5
KeywordsFemale author, Palestinian author, US author
Annotation

The story is set in a future Israeli-occupied Gaza in which climate change has so destroyed the atmosphere that where everyone must wear a “lifemask” from birth that adapted to each face and is color-coded to reveal status with the mask changing color as the person aged and people were sentenced to “deactivation” on depending on health or other factors.

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Author Note

The female author (b. 1996) grew up in Gaza and has a degree from Al-Azhar University-Gaza. She moved to the U.S. in 2018 where she is a dentist in Boston.

Full Text

2019 Abutabikh, Tasnim (b. 1996). “Vengeance.” Palestine + 100 [Cover adds Stories from a century after the Nakba]. Ed. Basma Ghalayin (Np: Comma Press, 2019), 103-116. PSt

The story is set in a future Israeli-occupied Gaza in which climate change has so destroyed the atmosphere that where everyone must wear a “lifemask” from birth that adapted to each face and is color-coded to reveal status with the mask changing color as the person aged and people were sentenced to “deactivation” on depending on health or other factors. The female author grew up in Gaza and has a degree from Al-Azhar University-Gaza. She moved to the U.S. in 2018 where she is a dentist in Boston.