Balcony of Disgrace
by Ibrahim Nasrallah
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“Ibrahim Nasrallah” Born in 1954 in Amman Jordan to Palestinian refugee parents, who were forced to leave Palestine in 1948.
This background gave Nasrallah the drive to investigate and research Palestinians life and experience in the occupied lands and around the world.
Nasrallah wrote 35 books. He is considered the leading Palestinian writer and one of the few current prominent Arab writers. His work culminated in winning the Booker prestigious Book Prize for Arabic Novel in 2018. Over the Years, Nasrallah won another 9 important Literature prizes in the Middle East.
Many of his Titles were translated to English/ Italian / Spanish and Turkish
Balcony of Disgrace
Ibrahim Nasrallah presents one of his most daring novels, “Balcony of Disgrace”. In this novel, Nasrallah deals with a non-spoken worldwide social problem, namely honor killing. According to a UN report, 5000 women are killed annually; their only “crime” is that they had “disgraced’ their families because they made love with whom they had loved.
Honor killing, which itself is a crime, is considered one of the most heinous forms of violence brought upon women. Advocates of this monstrous crime claim that men are the guardians of women’s honor and purity. Worse than that is that laws in most of societies, in which these crimes are committed, are so lenient on the killers; in most cases, in most countries, criminals are jailed for six months only.
Nasrallah dedicated this novel to the victims of honor killing all over the globe. He, together with his publisher, purposefully chose March 8th (The International Women’s Day) to be the date of launching and distributing his novel. In Amman, the capital of Jordan, the author signed copies of his novel to a crowed of fans who attended a gathering particularly held to commemorate this occasion.
After two weeks of its publication, this novel was listed number one best seller in the Arabic countries. Also, the author received two offers to produce it as a movie; a third one to bring it into stage.
In preparation for writing his novel, the writer conducted a lengthy research about this kind of crime. His research included 50 crimes of the sort, tens of eyewitness reports and tens of interviews with supposedly “dishonorable” women who asked police to protect them from their families.
and who were put in jail, as a shelter. The outcome of this groundwork was the basis for the novel.
All in all, this is a thrilling, heartbreaking, inspiring novel, worthy of reading. It will be a transforming lesson to those social strata who still believe that killing is permissible in “defense” of honor. Also, it will rally more and more of open-minded people around a very important social issue, the name of which is: WOMEN’S RIGHTS in many socities.
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- Publisher Arab Scientific Publishers
- Orginal LanguageArabic
- ISBN/Identifier 9789953879086
- Publication Country or regionLebanon
- Primary Price 6.50 USD
- Pages238
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language Titleشرفة العار
- Original Language Authorsarabic
- Edition7
- Copyright Year2010
- Dimensions14.5*21.5 cm
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