The Game of Blind Man's Bluff

About this book

Afaf Mohamed El-Sadeq's poems connect love with homeland, estrangement and disappointed hopes. Lost dreams and places marked by betrayal or neglect become part of a generation's search for a way back to itself and beyond despair. Palestine has a place in the collection, with its suffering and hopes linked to wider concerns about the Arab world. Moving between reproach, tenderness and protest, the poems consider what happens when private grief becomes inseparable from a community's losses and its longing for freedom.