Photograph by Isabella Hammad.

This is a section of the diary I kept while writing my forthcoming novel, Enter Ghost, about a performance of Hamlet in the West Bank.

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

My world has shrunk dramatically. The benefit of lockdown for me is learning to live day in day out without constant change. This is life, time passing. This is how I imagine most people live.

I looked at the objects in the house

the titles of the books

strange incandescence from the windows

Thursday, May 21, 2020

I feel, what is the point of anything

going places    seeing people    doing anything

just ways to pass the time

Read More