{"id":13373,"date":"2020-02-20T16:11:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T14:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maktoobooks.com\/?p=13373"},"modified":"2023-07-18T11:53:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T08:53:12","slug":"the-gate-to-the-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maktoobooks.com\/en\/the-gate-to-the-body\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gate to the Body"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maktoobooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Sheikha-Hlewa_JLS-9.1.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"both\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">Sheikha Hlewa_JLS 9.1<br\/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>*The text was originally written in Arabic. It was translated and published at the anthology <a href=\"http:\/\/maktoobooks.com\/en\/book\/entest1\/\">&#8220;Amputated Tongue: Palestinian Prose in Hebrew&#8221;<\/a> by Maktoob Series (2019).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>*The English translation was first published on JLS- Journal of Levantine Studies, Vol 9 No1, Summer 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/levantine-journal.org\/vol-9-no-1-summer-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The size of her breasts and their roundness. Her father claims they have reached the size that attracts the looks of the truck drivers passing in the morning on the road running next to the village, while her mother says they are hardly noticable behind her bra.<br \/>\nA short story by Palestinian female writer Sheikha Hlewa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18714,"featured_media":13392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6167],"tags":[6157,6179,6178,6156,6168,6155,6173],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Gate to the Body &#8226; \u05de\u05b7\u05db\u05b0\u05bc\u05ea\u05d5\u05bc\u05d1\u05bc \u0645\u0643\u062a\u0648\u0628 - \u05e1\u05e4\u05e8\u05d5\u05ea \u05e2\u05e8\u05d1\u05d9\u05ea \u05d1\u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maktoobooks.com\/en\/the-gate-to-the-body\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Gate to the Body &#8226; \u05de\u05b7\u05db\u05b0\u05bc\u05ea\u05d5\u05bc\u05d1\u05bc \u0645\u0643\u062a\u0648\u0628 - \u05e1\u05e4\u05e8\u05d5\u05ea \u05e2\u05e8\u05d1\u05d9\u05ea \u05d1\u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The size of her breasts and their roundness. 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