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She studied English and Arabic at the University of Cambridge. She lived and worked in the West Bank and in refugee camps in Lebanon in her early twenties. These experiences inspired Ever Land, her debut novel, an early iteration of which was shortlisted for the 2023 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. She is married with three children.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAmy Abdelnoor  \nEVER LAND  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor the people of Palestine – past, present and future.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n‘Start your story secondly and the world will be turned upside down.’  \n—Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nA note on transliteration  \nThere is no single scheme used for the transliteration of Arabic or modern Hebrew. There are several systems in use in academia which combine capital letters, numbers and apostrophes to represent sounds we don’t have in English. But these don’t really help readers who are unfamiliar with Arabic, modern Hebrew or their diacritical marks. For modern Hebrew, Iam reliant on Hebrew-speaking friends and the internet as I don’t speak the language. For Arabic, I have used my own system to transliterate, trying to simplify words as much as possible. I decided not to use apostrophes or capital letters for sounds we don’t have in English, instead using only the English alphabet to approximate the sounds unfamiliar to non-Arabic speakers.  \nFor the most part, the Arabic transliterated here is spoken, familiar Arabic and I am grateful to my Palestinian friends (Manal, Muna and Nadira) who have let me check my memory against their knowledge. The hardest transliteration was that of ﺻﺒﺎر and ﺻﺒﺮ . The former is the formal Arabic for the prickly-pear cactus plant and is pronounced in formal Arabic as‘sabbaar ’(with a hard ‘s’ and stress on the ‘b’ and a long ‘a’ sound) . In colloquial Arabic, the cactus plant is ‘sabir ’(hard ‘s’, but unstressed ‘b’ and short ‘a’ and ‘i’ sounds) . In colloquial Arabic,‘sabir ’ also means patience. There are, of course, also regional variations. Those familiar with these words will know that the plant itself has come to represent the patience of the Palestinian people. To differentiate for my readers between the two and still be broadly consistent with the way in which these words are used in pieces about Palestine, I have transliterated the cactus plant as ‘sabir ’ and patience as ‘sabr ’. I hope that native speakers of Arabic will forgive the over simplification of our beautiful language.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nsifr  \nnothing and something  \nSifr. Zero.  \nThe nothing that exists before something begins.  \nA hula hoop to skip through.  \nA wooden ring, hanging in a window, just so, to catch the setting sun. A noose around a neck.  \nWhen it happened, when something turned to nothing, I was reaching out for her, calling to her.  \nI had managed.  \nAlmost.  \nBefore the bullet that marked me as collateral damage.  \nThey splintered truth then, with the June day, cobalt blue sliced by shrapnel into ribbons of dull, metallic grey. My hollow zero was painted in, morphing to a solid, black circle: round, like the bullet that met me.  \nA fragment in the scale of things, you might say, just something to start the counting, a number among numbers that made the statistics of that day. But it was also an overwhelming fragment. A crack in the sky. Painful and searing, clinging to the edges of my being, holding me in stasis, refusing to let me rest, until I knew.  \nAnd so that day became a day among Six, making the name of a war tethered to a year, a specific year, 1967. And that name and that year yoke themselves to the limbo following 1948 and 1956. 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