Gate of the Sun

Elias Khoury · 1948–2024 · Lebanon

Originally Bab al-Shams (Arabic) · translated by Humphrey Davies

Why it matters

A dying man's bedside storytelling gathers decades of Palestinian dispossession, the 1948 Nakba, and refugee camp life into one polyphonic testimony. Built from years of collected oral history, a monument to Palestinian memory.

At a glance

Polyphonic, nonlinear oral testimonies interweave hundreds of voices across decades.