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Umm Saad (Arabic: أم سعد / ALA-LC: Umm Saʻd) is a novella written by fiction writer and journalist Ghassan Kanafani. The book discusses themes of war, patience, and resistance through a first point of view perspective. Upon its release, its political and social themes were generally praised.
Perhaps the most notorious moment of political awareness of the peasant Umm Saad is provided in the first story “Umm Saad and the War That Ended.” Here, she recounts that her son has been imprisoned, but that she is confident that he will one day leave.
- Odette Yidi
Umm Saad allegorizes the struggles of Palestinians to reclaim their land. A poor peasant woman, the titular heroine embodies the intimate connection between Palestinians and their land, acting as a helper to combative men and a primal symbol for attachment to the enduring land.
8 de dic. de 2013 · Umm Al-Sa'ad Ali Najm,age 77, is considered to be the most well known woman in the world of recitations of the Qur'aan. The only woman to specialize in the ten qira'aat, and has spent over fifty years granting ijaazas in the ten qira'aat.
Umm Saad - Ghassan Kanafani. 6.93 USD. Umm Saad is "the voice of that Palestinian class that paid dearly for defeat, and who now stands under the low ceiling of misery in the high ranks of the battle." Number of pages: 76. Product details: Sku. 9786589097914. Price. 6.93 USD. Out of Stock. Products you may like. 8.80 USD. 9.33 USD. 12 USD.
- Ahlia House
In Umm Sa'ad (1969), the impact of his new revolutionary outlook is explicit as he creates the portrait of a mother who encourages her son to take up arms as a resistance fedayeen in full awareness that the choice of life might eventuate in his death.
Umm Saad is a personal mother and a trope for a feminized colonized territory, metaphorically representing the Palestinian nation and assuming mythological features enabling her to identify with the Earth Mother to send a message against dispossession.
