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Anton Shammas

Anton Shammas is an Israeli Arab who lives in Jerusalem. He was one of the founders of the Arabic magazine The East, which he edited between 1971 and 1976. ‘The Retreat to Galilee’, which appeared in Granta 23, formed part of his novel Arabesques, published in 1986.

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The Retreat from Galilee

Anton Shammas

‘Our village is built on the ruins of the Crusader castle of Fassove, which was built on the ruins of Mifshata, the Jewish village that had been settled after the destruction of the Second Temple by a group of deviant priests, and which the villagers, as a sort of Jewish-Crusader compromise, called Fassu-ta.’

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