Oppression

About this book

In the dark passages of detention, time loses its familiar markers and silence becomes a shield. Oppression follows a confined man confronting physical and psychological coercion designed to extract a confession and justify arbitrary power. Threats against his family and seemingly endless nights test the limits of endurance. Yet shared memory and solidarity among prisoners offer small moments of light. This fifth instalment of the Path of the Palestinian Agony explores the human mind under terror and the persistence of dignity amid repression. Jamil al-Salhūt’s novel is presented in an English translation by Souhail Akayour.