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256 Spring 2024

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Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch. There's also new short fiction from Rowan MacDonald, Bethany Lalor and Amalia Stone, and new poetry from Josie Suzanne, Tim Loveday, Lulu Houdini and more.

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Jumana Bayeh

Jumana Bayeh is Associate Professor at Macquarie University. She is the author of The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora(2015), and several articles on the Arab diaspora fiction. Most recently she co-edited Writing the Global Riot (2024; with Helen Groth and Julian Murphet). She is currently working on an ARC project that examines the representation of the nation-state in Arab diaspora literature from writers based in Australia, North America and the United Kingdom.

Articles by Jumana Bayeh:

31 March 202531 March 2025 · The university

Silencing Palestine: Universities Australia and the new definition of antisemitism

Jumana Bayeh

I am a researcher of literature and I am invested in understanding the political nature of language, and the context in which that language is embedded — even chaotic and unfocused language. I want to add a more “literary reading” to what has already been said of the UA definition of antisemitism, to expose subtexts that not even the leading lights of the Go8 cared to realise.

13 September 202111 October 2021 · Islamophobia

Twenty years of September 11: the Arab-Australian experience

Jumana Bayeh

September 11 did not dramatically alter what it means to be a Muslim or an Arab in the Western world. It is perhaps more accurate to say that September 11 heightened the intensity of the discrimination and the alienation Muslims in the West have long endured.