Palestinians in Syria by Anaheed Al-Hardan

Author:Anaheed Al-Hardan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS019000, History/Middle East/Israel, POL035010, Political Science/Political Freedom & Security/Human Rights
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

SORROWFUL REGRET

The Arabic word hasra and its verb tahasara entail both sorrow and regret. I therefore translate hasra as “sorrowful regret.” Later in the interview with Ahlam, I probed her further about what she described as the guardians’ sorrowful regret. She said:

In their conversations, they would talk a little and then they would stop. You feel that this silence, it has something strange about it. They would look at each other and then stop talking. Like they are still talking but…among themselves, alone…. What I mean is that they would say, “Do you remember?” And then they would look at each other and fall silent and then [eventually] start talking again. You feel that there was something strange in the matter…. I think it was sorrowful regret [hasra].21

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